Zephyrin

Zephyrin is a male name .

Origin and meaning

The name Zephyrin comes from the Greek language and is based on Saint Zephyrinus , Bishop of Rome from 198 to 217. The name means "the west wind".

variants

The feminine form of the given name is Zephyrine , Zéphyrine, Zéphirine. The long form of the name in Zephyrinus.

• French : Zéphyrin
• Italian : Zeffirino
• Spanish : Ceferino
• Czech : Zefyrin, Zeferin

name day

December 20th has been celebrated as the name day since 1970 . Previously, the memorial day was August 26th .

Name bearer

First name

• Ceferino Garcia (1906-1981), Filipino boxer
• Zefyrinus Namuncurà (1886–1905) (also: Ceferino), Argentine blessed in the Roman Catholic Church
• Zéphyrin Toé (1928–2013), former Burkinabe Bishop of Dédougou.
• Zephyrin Zettl (1876–1935), German-speaking dialect poet and printer from the Bohemian Forest

Intermediate name

• Jean François Marie Zéphyrin Bladé (1827–1900), French ethnologist and writer
• Raúl Cancio (actually Ceferino Cancio Amunárriz) (1911–1961), Spanish actor
• Stephan Caesar Zephirin Cegielski (1852–1921), German entrepreneur and member of the German Reichstag
• Karl Anton Joachim Zephyrin Friedrich Meinrad Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811–1885), last Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
• Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana (1792–1857), Uruguayan politician
• Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1839–1914), King of Romania

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zephyrinus . In: The Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
2. ^ Liturgical calendar 1962 ( Memento of February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 204 kB) p. 54