Ananiasz
From the Hebrew Hananiah, it carries a small sentence about God: "God is gracious." The name stays vanishingly rare in Poland, so much so that most people here have never met an Ananiasz, and no boys have been given it in years.
Ananiasz Pronunciation
Ananiasz is pronounced ah-NAH-nyahsh (/aˈnaɲaʂ/).
What Ananiasz means
Where Ananiasz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ananiasz comes from Hebrew. The original form is Hananiah, and it holds the meaning "God is gracious." The name reached Polish through Greek and then Latin, the road most biblical names took into the Church calendar.
It belongs to the New Testament. In the Acts of the Apostles, Ananiasz of Damascus is the disciple who lays his hands on the blinded Saul and gives him back his sight, just before Saul becomes Paul. That scene fixed the name in Christian memory. In Poland the imieniny fall on 25 January, 1 December, and 16 December.
The meaning is really a short sentence about God rather than about the child who bears it. "God is gracious" is a statement, and Ananiasz repeats it whenever someone is called by it. The name stays rare in Poland. On a school register it sits oddly among the many boys named Jakub and Antoni, four syllables where the others have two or three. What the four syllables say, in Hebrew, is that God is gracious.
When Ananiasz celebrates name day
Ananiasz appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 January.
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 Ananiasz
1 in 2668274 men in Poland is named Ananiasz. 8 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #18307 among male names.
Ananiasz as a middle name
Ananiasz is a first name for 8 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3752nd, between Amol (7) and Anastasios (7).
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#3750 Amandus7
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#3751 Amol7
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#3752 Ananiasz7
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#3753 Anastasios7
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#3754 Andries7