Duc
Fewer than 110 people in Poland carry it, almost all of them men, so most Poles have never met one. The name comes from Latin, in the sense of "virtue".
Duc Pronunciation
Duc is pronounced DOOTS (/dut͡s/).
What Duc means
Where Duc comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Duc is a name of one syllable, and its root is Latin. The meaning handed down with it is virtue, in Polish cnota. Latin built the idea of virtue on virtus, and virtus grew from vir, a word for man, carrying a first sense closer to courage than to mildness.
The reading of the name as virtue came later. A short form like this can settle into a meaning over time, and cnota is what settled here. So the name points at conduct, at how a person holds himself, more than at any tale of gods or kings.
Picture the name on a school register, Duc printed in a column beside longer Polish names. It takes up less room than the rest. The teacher reaches it quickly. What the register cannot show is the sense behind those three letters, virtue, cnota.
How many people are named Duc
1 in 201379 men in Poland is named Duc. 108 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3273 among male names.
Duc's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Duc as a middle name
Duc is a first name for 108 men in Poland and a middle name for another 45, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1147th, between Domenico (45) and Edmond (45).