Engelbert
Barely 367 men in Poland carry it, and no boy was given it last year: most Poles have never met one. Germanic at root, built from words for angel and bright, so roughly "bright angel".
Engelbert Pronunciation
Engelbert is pronounced en-GEL-bert (/ɛnˈgɛlbɛrt/).
What Engelbert means
Where Engelbert comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Engelbert grows from Germanic soil. The first part, Engel, points to the angel, and it shares a border with the Angles, the tribe whose name later reached the island of England. The second part comes from beraht, meaning bright or shining. Read together, the two halves give "bright angel," which Polish carries as anielsko jasny.
The name took root in German-speaking lands and stayed there. Engelbert of Cologne, an archbishop, was murdered in 1225 and afterward honored as a saint, so the name gained a feast day and a story of martyrdom. Much later the composer Engelbert Humperdinck signed his name to the opera Hänsel und Gretel, first staged in 1893. The same two syllables served a bishop and a man who wrote music for children.
In Poland it stays rare. A boy called Engelbert on a school register turns a head, and the teacher slows down over the middle of it.
The name keeps no soft Polish diminutive of its own. It arrives whole. What it offers is the plain reading of its parts: Engel the angel, bert the brightness, joined into "bright angel."
When Engelbert celebrates name day
Engelbert appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 10 July.
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 Engelbert
1 in 58164 men in Poland is named Engelbert. 367 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1561 among male names.
Engelbert as a middle name
Engelbert is a first name for 367 men in Poland and a middle name for another 173, a 68/32 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 521st, between Nathaniel (175) and Harald (173).
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#519 Ludwig175
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#520 Nathaniel175
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#521 Engelbert173
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#522 Harald173
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#523 Frederick172