Samson
Most Poles have never met a Samson: only 167 carry it, all of them men. The name comes from Hebrew, built on *shemesh*, the sun, and read as son of the sun.
Samson Pronunciation
Samson is pronounced SAHM-son (/ˈsamsɔn/).
What Samson means
Where Samson comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Samson comes from Hebrew, where the name Shimshon grows out of shemesh, the word for sun. Read at its root, it points to daylight and heat, and the short gloss that follows it is son of the sun. The name means son of the sun.
Its most famous bearer stands in the Book of Judges. This Samson is the strongman whose power lives in his uncut hair, who tears a lion apart and later pulls down the pillars of a Philistine temple. The story fixed the name in Jewish and Christian memory long before it reached Polish parish books. Strength and the sun stayed attached to it.
In Poland the name is rare, and a boy called Samson on a school register will usually be the only one in the class. The spelling holds steady, with no clutch of diminutives or variants to soften it. What travels with it instead is that first Hebrew reading, shemesh, the sun.
When Samson celebrates name day
Samson appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 27 June.
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 Samson
1 in 127821 men in Poland is named Samson. 167 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2492 among male names.
Samson's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1351 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021.
Samson as a middle name
Samson is a first name for 167 men in Poland and a middle name for another 67, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 886th, between Paskal (67) and Abbas (66).
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