Symforian
Rare enough that most Poles have never met one, and no boys have carried it into the last generation. It comes from the Greek *symphoros*, the one who is useful and easy in company, with name day on 22 August.
Symforian Pronunciation
Symforian is pronounced sihm-FOR-yahn (/sɨmˈfɔrjan/).
What Symforian means
Where Symforian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Symforian comes from the Greek Symphorianos, formed on symphoros, a word for useful, suitable, the one who accompanies. Polish glosses it plainly as stosowny, odpowiedni. The name marks a person as fit for the moment and easy in company.
The Latin form Symphorianus belonged to a young martyr of Autun, killed in the second century for refusing the town's pagan rites. His feast fixed the name in the calendar. In Poland the imieniny fall on 22 August.
That date does real work. A boy called Symforian meets it on the class register each August, next to a name few of his classmates share. The Greek root holds steady under all of it: symphoros, useful and companionable.
When Symforian celebrates name day
Symforian appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 22 August.
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 Symforian
1 in 2371799 men in Poland is named Symforian. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #17975 among male names.
Symforian as a middle name
Symforian is a first name for 9 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 39/61 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2566th, between Sunny (14) and Taher (14).
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#2564 Simcha14
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#2565 Sunny14
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#2566 Symforian14
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#2567 Taher14
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#2568 Tapiwanashe14