Achacjusz
Almost no one in Poland answers to it: the records hold just three living men, and no boy took it last year. From Greek, it pulls two ways at once: Akakios, "free from evil," and achates, the banded agate stone.
Achacjusz Pronunciation
Achacjusz is pronounced ah-KHAHTS-yoosh (/aˈxat͡sjuʂ/).
What Achacjusz means
Where Achacjusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Achacjusz comes from Greek. The root Akakios joins the prefix a-, meaning without, to kakos, meaning evil. The literal sense is free from evil, innocent, a person untouched by malice.
A second thread runs alongside. Greek achates names the agate stone, and Polish tradition links Achacjusz to that word, which is why the Polish gloss sets agat beside nieznający zła. The two readings sit in the name together, and neither has fully pushed out the other.
Saint Acacius carried the name into the Christian calendar. Latin turned Akakios into Achatius, and Polish reshaped that form into Achacjusz. It is rare now. You will meet it on an old parish register sooner than on a school class register.
Whoever answered to it answered to two senses at once, freedom from evil and the banded shine of an agate.
When Achacjusz celebrates name day
Achacjusz appears 9 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 2 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
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in 114 days2 JanuarySaturday in 2027
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in 170 days27 FebruarySaturday in 2027
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in 202 days31 MarchWednesday in 2027
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in 211 days9 AprilFriday in 2027
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in 230 days28 AprilWednesday in 2027
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in 240 days8 MaySaturday in 2027
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in 285 days22 JuneTuesday in 2027
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in 321 days28 JulyWednesday in 2027
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in 78 days27 NovemberFriday in 2026
How many people are named Achacjusz
1 in 7115396 men in Poland is named Achacjusz. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #34239 among male names.
Achacjusz as a middle name
Achacjusz is a first name for 3 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7100th, between Abrão (2) and Acharya (2).
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#7098 Abrahim2
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#7099 Abrão2
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#7100 Achacjusz2
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#7101 Acharya2
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#7102 Achilleas2