Gorgoniusz
Almost no one in Poland carries it: about ten men, all of them, and not one newborn since at least 2000. From the Greek gorgós, "terrible, fierce", the same root that named the Gorgons of myth.
Gorgoniusz Pronunciation
Gorgoniusz is pronounced gor-GO-nyoosh (/gɔrˈgɔɲuʂ/).
What Gorgoniusz means
Where Gorgoniusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gorgoniusz reaches back to the Greek adjective gorgós, meaning terrible, dreadful, fierce. The same root named the Gorgons of myth, the grim sisters whose gaze turned onlookers to stone. The name begins in a word for what frightens.
It did not stay tied to monsters. Gorgonius of Nicomedia served as an official at Diocletian's court and was executed for his faith around the year 303. The Church later honored him as a saint, and Polish calendars still mark his imieniny on 9 September. A boy given the name today shares that date with the martyr.
Read one out in a school register and it lands hard among the Szymons and Kacpers. Few first names admit so openly to force.
The meaning stays blunt. In Polish it reads as straszliwy, groźny.
When Gorgoniusz celebrates name day
Gorgoniusz appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 9 September.
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 Gorgoniusz
1 in 2134619 men in Poland is named Gorgoniusz. 10 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #16072 among male names.
Gorgoniusz as a middle name
Gorgoniusz is a first name for 10 men in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 45/55 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2782nd, between Godwin (12) and Haluk (12).
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#2780 Giorgi12
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#2781 Godwin12
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#2782 Gorgoniusz12
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#2783 Haluk12
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#2784 Hao12