Flawiusz
From Latin, carrying the sense of "golden" or fair-haired. Fewer than 30 men in Poland go by it, so most people here will never meet a Flawiusz.
Flawiusz Pronunciation
Flawiusz is pronounced FLAHV-yoosh (/ˈflavjuʂ/).
What Flawiusz means
Where Flawiusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Flawiusz comes from the Latin Flavius, a Roman family name built on the adjective flavus, golden or yellow-haired. The name pointed at hair the color of ripe wheat. Whole clans carried it before any single child did.
The gens Flavia gave Rome emperors, including Vespasian, who reached the throne in 69 AD. The historian known in Poland as Józef Flawiusz wrote his account of the Jewish war under that same name. The color sense stayed fixed: żółty, złocisty, the shade of gold.
A boy named Flawiusz today might stand out at once on a school class register, next to the more common names. The feminine variant is Flawia. Both trace back to flavus, and to a head of golden hair.
When Flawiusz celebrates name day
Flawiusz appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 18 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 Flawiusz
1 in 790600 men in Poland is named Flawiusz. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8048 among male names.
Flawiusz's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Flawiusz as a middle name
Flawiusz is a first name for 27 men in Poland and a middle name for another 66, a 29/71 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 889th, between Dung (66) and Jin (66).
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#887 Abbas66
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#888 Dung66
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#889 Flawiusz66
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#890 Jin66
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#891 João66