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Kordian

Latin at root, the name carries the sense of "heart". It sits just inside Poland's top 500, still rare enough that most Poles have never met one, and given only to boys.

Kordian Pronunciation

Kordian is pronounced KORD-yahn (/ˈkɔrdjan/).

Alive in 2025
4,918
Newborns 2025
145
National rank
#492
Next name day
22 October
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What Kordian means

Where Kordian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Kordian comes from Latin, from cor, cordis, the word for heart. Polish keeps that meaning plainly: serce. The name has no long medieval pedigree here. It arrived through literature.

Juliusz Słowacki gave it to the hero of his 1834 drama Kordian, and the play fixed the name in Polish culture. His Kordian is a young man tested by doubt, love, and a rebellion that fails. From that character the name drew its charge, and it stayed bound to the Latin root for the heart.

A boy called Kordian now shares the class register with a Jakub or a Szymon. He wears an uncommon name with a clear source. Behind it sits the Latin cor, and its short meaning in Polish, serce.

When Kordian celebrates name day

Kordian appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 22 October.

Next name day
22 October
Thursday in 2026
Next one in 42 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Kordian

1 in 4340 men in Poland is named Kordian. 4,918 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #492 among male names.

People with the name Kordian 2019 → 2025
4,918 +1,015 since 2019
2020 4,020 +117
2021 4,223 +203
2022 4,428 +205
2023 4,610 +182
2024 4,766 +156
2025 4,918 +152

Kordian's popularity over time

145 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #216 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005.

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145 newborns with the name Kordian in 2025
national rank #216 that year

Where Kordian is most popular

Kordian is most popular in Łódź, 51% above the national average (111 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Warmian-Masurian (+44%) and Lubusz (+36%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Masovian, 47% and 40% below average respectively.

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Kordian as a middle name

Kordian is a first name for 4,918 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,111, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 221st, between Jose (1,116) and Dionizy (1,107).

As a first name
4,918
As a middle name
1,111
first name 82% middle name 18%
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