Todor
Barely 85 men in Poland carry it, and the records show no boys given it since 2000. Greek at root, from a name meaning "gift of god".
Todor Pronunciation
Todor is pronounced TO-dor (/ˈtɔdɔr/).
What Todor means
Where Todor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Todor comes from the Greek Theodoros, built from theos, god, and doron, gift. The literal meaning is gift of god. In Polish it stands close to Teodor, its familiar cousin.
Todor is the South Slavic form, at home in Bulgarian, Serbian, and Macedonian. It has traveled with real people. Todor Zhivkov led Bulgaria for decades in the twentieth century, so the name holds a fixed place in that country's public record. The saint's calendar keeps it too, since the Greek Theodoros gave the Church several martyrs called Theodore.
On a Polish class register, Todor would read as slightly foreign, a form from across the mountains beside the local Teodor. That distance is part of what it offers. The compound has not shifted in all that time: theos and doron, god and gift, still spelling out gift of god.
How many people are named Todor
1 in 251132 men in Poland is named Todor. 85 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3848 among male names.
Todor as a middle name
Todor is a first name for 85 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5834th, between Tobías (4) and Tomáš (4).
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#5832 Timothée4
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#5833 Tobías4
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#5834 Todor4
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#5835 Tomáš4
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#5836 Tope4