Obidjon
Fewer than fifty men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been recorded with it since 2000: most Poles will never meet an Obidjon. The name comes from Arabic and means "devout worshipper".
Obidjon Pronunciation
Obidjon is pronounced o-BEED-yon (/ɔˈbidjɔn/).
What Obidjon means
Where Obidjon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Obidjon reaches Polish name lists from far to the east, and its first piece is Arabic. The element Obid traces to the Arabic ʿābid, a word for one who worships, one who bows in devotion. Onto that root Central Asian speakers, in Uzbek and Tajik use, added -jon, a warm suffix meaning soul or dear. So the whole name reads as a devout worshipper held close, the English gloss the record gives it, in Polish pobożny czciciel.
The sense of devotion sits in the origin itself, not stitched on afterward. That is rare. Many names gather their meaning late, but ʿābid meant worship from the start.
Picture the name on a Polish dziennik, a class register where Obidjon lands among Antonis and Jakubs, arriving with a family from Samarkand or Tashkent. A clerk at the urząd copies it letter by letter. The form has no diminutive to fall back on, no Polish softening. Obidjon stays whole. What the child carries is plain in the two joined pieces: an Arabic word for the one who worships, and a tender -jon that means dear.
How many people are named Obidjon
1 in 533655 men in Poland is named Obidjon. 40 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6151 among male names.