Zokhidjon
Arabic at root, carrying the sense of devout or ascetic. In Poland it belongs to a small circle of men, and no boys have been given it in years, so most Poles have never met one.
Zokhidjon Pronunciation
Zokhidjon is pronounced zok-KHEED-yon (/zɔkˈxidjɔn/).
What Zokhidjon means
Where Zokhidjon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zokhidjon comes to Polish lists from Central Asia. Uzbek and Tajik speakers shaped it from an Arabic root. That root is "zahid," a word for the ascetic, the one who turns from the world. To it they joined "-jon," a Persian term of endearment meaning "soul" or "dear." The name reads as a beloved ascetic.
Arabic "zahid" belonged to religious life. Sufi writers used it for people who fasted, prayed, and gave their goods away. The Polish gloss holds both halves, pobożny and asceta.
The piety sits in the root itself, present from the start. A boy called Zokhidjon in Tashkent shares his first syllables with a word Arabic poets wrote down centuries ago. On a Polish class register those four syllables would stand out at once. Read the name back and you land on the asceta inside it.
How many people are named Zokhidjon
1 in 821007 men in Poland is named Zokhidjon. 26 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8439 among male names.