Vardan
A Slavic name that carries one thing: rose. In Poland it belongs entirely to men, around 160 of them, and most Poles have never met one.
Vardan Pronunciation
What Vardan means
Where Vardan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vardan reaches this page marked as Slavic, and its short meaning is a single word: rose, róża in Polish. No diminutive stands next to it, no variant, no feminine twin. The entry is spare.
A rose is a strange thing to fold into a name. The bloom holds scent and thorn together, and a child named for it inherits both readings at once. Where the sense of "rose" attached to Vardan, it works as an image rather than a plain translation, a meaning laid over the sound rather than dug out of it.
Picture the name checked against a school register on the first September morning, or read out once a year at an imieniny. In those moments Vardan is just letters and a voice, ordinary until someone asks what it means.
Then the answer is the same short word the record gives: rose.
How many people are named Vardan
1 in 130160 men in Poland is named Vardan. 164 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2524 among male names.