Egidiusz
Records list just four men in Poland with this name, so most Poles will never meet one. It runs back to Greek: "young goat," and the same root gives the aegis, the goatskin shield Zeus carried.
Egidiusz Pronunciation
Egidiusz is pronounced e-GEED-yoosh (/ɛˈgidjuʂ/).
What Egidiusz means
Where Egidiusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Egidiusz starts in Greek, in the noun aix, aigos, which means goat. The short sense handed down with the name is "young goat", a small sure-footed animal that keeps its footing on rock.
From that same root the Greeks built aigis, aigidos, a shield faced with goat skin. Zeus carried it, and one of his epithets was aigidios, the aegis-bearer. Latin took the word and turned it into Aegidius. Polish still keeps the older sense in the word egida and the phrase pod egidą, meaning under someone's protection.
One name holds two pictures: the young goat, and the goatskin shield of the god. Egidiusz carries both.
In Poland the imieniny for Egidiusz falls on the first of September, its most common date.
When Egidiusz celebrates name day
Egidiusz appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 7 February.
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 Egidiusz
1 in 5336547 men in Poland is named Egidiusz. 4 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #29709 among male names.
Egidiusz as a middle name
Egidiusz is a first name for 4 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 44/56 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4673rd, between Edilson (5) and Egil (5).
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#4671 Ebenezer5
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#4672 Edilson5
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#4673 Egidiusz5
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#4674 Egil5
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#4675 Eike5