Phridon
Only 36 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one. The name comes from Greek and means "the third".
Phridon Pronunciation
What Phridon means
Where Phridon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Phridon reaches Polish records rarely. The name is Greek in origin, and its plain meaning is "the third," or in Polish trzeci. Ancient households sometimes counted their children straight into their names. A family might mark a third son with an ordinal, the way Latin handed down the name Tertius for exactly that reason. Phridon belongs to that old counting habit, kept in Greek dress.
The origin is Greek. That single fact sets Phridon apart on any Polish list, where Piotr, Jakub, and Antoni fill most of the lines. Picture the school register on the first day of the year. The teacher slows down at Phridon, unsure of the stress, then reads it and moves on to the next child.
Nobody in Poland grows a set of diminutives for a name this uncommon, so Phridon stays whole. There is no local pet form, no feminine twin, no worn-down variant. What the bearer keeps is the meaning itself, clear and countable: Phridon, from the Greek, the third.
How many people are named Phridon
1 in 592950 men in Poland is named Phridon. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6639 among male names.