Ambroży
From the Greek for "immortal". Fewer than 300 Poles carry it, so meeting one stays with you: most people here will never cross paths with an Ambroży.
Ambroży Pronunciation
Ambroży is pronounced ahmb-RO-zhih (/ambˈrɔʐɨ/).
What Ambroży means
Where Ambroży comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ambroży comes from the Greek Ambrosios, built on ambrosia, the food of the gods that kept them from dying. The short meaning follows straight from that root: immortal. Few names state their promise so plainly.
The most famous bearer is Saint Ambrose of Milan, a fourth-century bishop whose Latin name Ambrosius gave Poland its Ambroży. His feast fixes the name-day on 7 December. So any Ambroży reading a school register knows when his imieniny falls, and he can count on it every winter.
The name also has a feminine echo in ambrozja, at once a woman's form and the Polish word for the drink of the gods. The immortal sense was not glued on later. It sits inside the Greek word, in the alpha that negates and the root for what is mortal. That makes Ambroży a rare case where the meaning, immortal, is also the etymology.
When Ambroży celebrates name day
Ambroży appears 8 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 16 October.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Ambroży
1 in 81164 men in Poland is named Ambroży. 263 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1884 among male names.
Ambroży's popularity over time
4 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #996 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2015.
Where parents choose Ambroży
Ambroży is most popular in Opole, 213% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+129%) and Greater Poland (+101%). It is least common in Lesser Poland, 37% below average.
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Opole
+213%1 in 23,048 babies
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Lower Silesian
+129%1 in 31,427 babies
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Greater Poland
+101%1 in 35,874 babies
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Lesser Poland
−37%1 in 113,458 babies
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Opole+213% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies+213%
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Lower Silesian+129% 5 born1 in 31,427 babies+129%
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Greater Poland+101% 6 born1 in 35,874 babies+101%
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Silesian+58% 5 born1 in 45,517 babies+58%
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Pomeranian+47% 3 born1 in 49,107 babies+47%
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Masovian+42% 7 born1 in 50,609 babies+42%
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Lesser Poland−37% 2 born1 in 113,458 babies−37%
Ambroży as a middle name
Ambroży is a first name for 263 men in Poland and a middle name for another 595, a 31/69 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 291st, between Szczęsny (604) and Herman (591).
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#289 Jozef606
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#290 Szczęsny604
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#291 Ambroży595
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#292 Herman591
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#293 Lew591