Veselin
A Slavic name built on the root for "cheerful". It's rare in Poland: only about 56 men carry it, all of them, and no boys have been given it in recent years.
Veselin Pronunciation
What Veselin means
Where Veselin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Veselin grows from the Slavic root vesel, meaning cheerful or merry. Polish speakers meet the same root in wesoły, and the short meaning of Veselin reads as radosny, wesoły. The name belongs mostly to the South Slavs, common among Serbs, Bulgarians, and Macedonians.
A person called Veselin carries a word that other Slavs still say out loud. The root is plain. In Polish the cognate sits inside wesele, the wedding, a day named for joy, and that link makes the name easy for a Polish ear to place.
Here the cheerfulness is the origin, present from the earliest record rather than attached later. On a Polish urząd form the name would be written Veselin, the V marking it as a guest from the south. The meaning stays fixed: radosny.
How many people are named Veselin
1 in 381182 men in Poland is named Veselin. 56 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4985 among male names.