Qëndrim
Only six men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one. The name means "steadfastness" or "endurance," and no boy has been given it this century.
Qëndrim Pronunciation
What Qëndrim means
Where Qëndrim comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Qëndrim comes from Albanian, and its origin sits outside the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most Polish registers. The noun qëndrim means a stance, a way of holding firm. It grows from the verb qëndroj, to stay, to stand one's ground. In English the sense lands on steadfastness and endurance.
The word does ordinary work in everyday Albanian speech, where qëndrim can name an attitude or a position taken in an argument. A person called Qëndrim wears a common noun as a first name. That is direct. Someone named steadfastness answers to it at roll call.
In a Polish szkoła the name would sit oddly on a class register, marked with a dotted ë that no other pupil carries. A clerk at the urząd might pause over the spelling. The meaning holds underneath the letters: qëndroj, to hold one's ground, and from it, endurance.
How many people are named Qëndrim
1 in 3557698 men in Poland is named Qëndrim. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #23879 among male names.