Kwiryn
Only 18 men in Poland carry it, and the birth records show no new ones since 2000. Latin at root: it goes back to Quirinus, tied to the word for a spear.
Kwiryn Pronunciation
Kwiryn is pronounced KFEE-rihn (/ˈkfirɨn/).
What Kwiryn means
Where Kwiryn comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kwiryn comes from the Latin Quirinus, a name the Romans gave to one of their oldest gods. Ancient writers traced Quirinus to the Sabine word quiris, meaning spear, and that is where the short meaning, spear, comes from. The name reaches back to a weapon and to a deity linked with the founding of Rome.
In Polish it stays rare. The name arrived through the Church, carried by Saint Quirinus, an early martyr whose feast keeps Kwiryn on the calendar and gives it an imieniny. A boy named Kwiryn today might be the only one in the class register, the sort of entry a teacher reads twice.
The feminine form is Kwiryna, used even less often. Both hold the same root, the Latin Quirinus and its old sense of the spear.
When Kwiryn celebrates name day
Kwiryn appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 March.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Kwiryn
1 in 1185899 men in Poland is named Kwiryn. 18 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10719 among male names.
Kwiryn as a middle name
Kwiryn is a first name for 18 men in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 36/64 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1478th, between Kerem (32) and Lam (32).
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#1476 Iqbal32
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#1477 Kerem32
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#1478 Kwiryn32
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#1479 Lam32
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#1480 Leonhard32