Apolinary
From the Latin Apollinaris, "belonging to Apollo". Only about 337 Polish men carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Apolinary Pronunciation
Apolinary is pronounced ah-po-lee-NAH-rih (/apɔliˈnarɨ/).
What Apolinary means
Where Apolinary comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Apolinary comes from the Latin Apollinaris, "belonging to Apollo." The god gave the name its meaning in English, "of Apollo," the Roman deity of light, music and healing. A Roman who bore Apollinaris was marked as the god's own, and the Polish reading holds that sense plainly: należący do Apollina.
Then the name changed hands. Apollinaris of Ravenna, remembered as that city's first bishop, was a martyr of the early Christian centuries, and today he is counted a patron of artists. The pagan root stayed in the letters while the story attached to it turned Christian. That is the reason Apolinary appears in the Polish calendar of saints at all.
Polish keeps his feast. Imieniny fall on the 23rd of July, the day tied to Apollinaris of Ravenna, and again on the 5th of October.
The feminine variant is Apolinaria, the same Latin bone under a different ending. Read a class register and you will meet the short form Apol or Polek before the full name. What the name says has not moved since Rome: of Apollo.
When Apolinary celebrates name day
Apolinary appears 8 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 23 August.
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 Apolinary
1 in 63342 men in Poland is named Apolinary. 337 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1638 among male names.
Apolinary's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Apolinary as a middle name
Apolinary is a first name for 337 men in Poland and a middle name for another 537, a 39/61 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 309th, between Lubomir (540) and Mario (534).
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#307 Kewin545
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#308 Lubomir540
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#309 Apolinary537
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#310 Mario534
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#311 Ewald532