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Gniewosz

A genuinely Slavic name built on the root gniew, "anger" or "wrath". It stays rare enough that most Poles have never met one, though a small run of boys still gets it every year.

Gniewosz Pronunciation

Gniewosz is pronounced GNYE-vosh (/ˈgɲɛvɔʂ/).

Alive in 2025
300
Newborns 2025
17
National rank
#1742

What Gniewosz means

Where Gniewosz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Gniewosz is a Slavic name built from an old root that survives in modern Polish as "gniew," meaning anger or wrath. Early Slavic parents drew names from strong feeling and open battle, and this one belongs to that stock, where a warrior's temper counted as a virtue rather than a fault.

The name has a real face in the record. Gniewosz of Dalewice, a nobleman and castellan at the court of King Władysław Jagiełło, appears in the chronicles after he spread slander against Queen Jadwiga and was forced to retract it in public. His life ties the name to ambition and courtly intrigue.

Polish nature borrowed the word too. "Gniewosz" is the common name for the smooth snake, Coronella austriaca, a shy and harmless reptile of sandy heaths.

The name is rare now. A boy called Gniewosz stands out on a class register, his name older than most around it. What he carries is a single root: gniew, the plain Polish word for anger.

How many people are named Gniewosz

1 in 71154 men in Poland is named Gniewosz. 300 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1742 among male names.

People with the name Gniewosz 2019 → 2025
300 +86 since 2019
2020 225 +11
2021 241 +16
2022 256 +15
2023 277 +21
2024 292 +15
2025 300 +8

Gniewosz's popularity over time

17 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #550 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2011.

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17 newborns with the name Gniewosz in 2025
national rank #550 that year

Where Gniewosz is most popular

Gniewosz is most popular in Lubusz, 253% above the national average (6 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Warmian-Masurian (+103%) and Greater Poland (+63%). It is least common in Masovian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 51% and 47% below average respectively.

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Gniewosz as a middle name

Gniewosz is a first name for 300 men in Poland and a middle name for another 134, a 69/31 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 606th, between Matias (135) and Gustav (134).

As a first name
300
As a middle name
134
first name 69% middle name 31%
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