Zefiryn
From the Greek word for the west wind, and given only to boys. Barely known in Poland: fewer than fifty men carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Zefiryn Pronunciation
Zefiryn is pronounced ze-FEE-rihn (/zɛˈfirɨn/).
What Zefiryn means
Where Zefiryn comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zefiryn comes from Greek, from Zephyros, the wind the ancient Greeks named as a god of the west. In Polish the meaning stays close to that source: wiatr zachodni, the west wind. Zephyros was the mildest of the wind brothers, the one they said returned in spring and softened the last of the frost.
The name has a feminine form, Zefiryna. Both are rare in Poland.
Open a Warsaw school register and you may read through the whole class without meeting one. A teacher hits Zefiryn, slows on the spelling, then moves on. The origin needs no decoding once you hear it. It is a weather word, old and Greek, that names a direction and a season at once. Later readers tied the name to gentleness, since Zephyros brought warm air rather than storms, but that softness sits on top of the plain fact. The word means the wind from the west, and Zefiryna carries the same meaning in a feminine ending.
When Zefiryn celebrates name day
Zefiryn appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 6 April.
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 Zefiryn
1 in 454174 men in Poland is named Zefiryn. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5587 among male names.
Zefiryn's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Zefiryn as a middle name
Zefiryn is a first name for 47 men in Poland and a middle name for another 47, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1125th, between Yasin (47) and Apollo (46).
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#1123 Talha47
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#1124 Yasin47
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#1125 Zefiryn47
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#1126 Apollo46
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#1127 Ayman46