Gennadii
Just over 400 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given the name in recent years: meeting one would stick with you. It's Greek at heart, meaning "noble, generous", and reaches Polish through Russian.
Gennadii Pronunciation
Gennadii is pronounced gen-NAHD-yee (/gɛnˈnadji/).
What Gennadii means
Where Gennadii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gennadii begins in Greek, in the word gennadas, which described someone noble and high-born. From it came the name Gennadios, and the sense of generosity grew alongside the sense of nobility, since a well-born person was expected to give freely. The Polish gloss keeps both: szlachetny, hojny, noble and generous.
The name traveled east and settled in Russian usage, where Gennadii became familiar in church and civic life. Several Orthodox bishops bore it, among them Gennady of Novgorod. Its double i in Polish marks a Cyrillic original brought over letter by letter.
The meaning is old. A man named Gennadii holds a word that once meant good stock and open hands. There are no diminutives offered here, no softer variants, so the full form does the work by itself. When a clerk at the urząd writes it on a form, what appears is exactly that: Gennadii, noble and generous.
How many people are named Gennadii
1 in 48186 men in Poland is named Gennadii. 443 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1406 among male names.