Łazarz
From Hebrew Eleazar, "God has helped," carried into Poland by Lazarus of Bethany, the man Jesus raised at the tomb. Almost no one meets a Łazarz today: you would sooner find him in an old parish register than on a class list.
Łazarz Pronunciation
Łazarz is pronounced WAH-zahsh (/ˈwazaʂ/).
What Łazarz means
Where Łazarz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Łazarz comes from Hebrew, from Eleazar, `El'azar`, which reads as "God has helped." That is the meaning Polish still gives it: "god has helped," "bóg pomaga." The name reached Poland through the Church, carried by the Gospel figure Lazarus of Bethany, the man Jesus raised at the tomb. So a boy called Łazarz wears an old sentence about rescue.
The name kept a plainer twin. `Łazar`, the variant, drops the final buzz and turns up in Polish surnames and village records.
Bearers of the name are rare now. You are more likely to meet Łazarz in a parish register from a few centuries back than in a school class list today. The Hebrew root stayed intact through every retelling, and it still means what it meant at the start. A name for someone helped. Not by luck, by God, if you trust the etymology. Łazarz, or Łazar, and under both the same four words: god has helped.
When Łazarz celebrates name day
Łazarz appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 11 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Łazarz
1 in 2371799 men in Poland is named Łazarz. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #18220 among male names.
Łazarz as a middle name
Łazarz is a first name for 9 men in Poland and a middle name for another 42, an 18/82 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1227th, between Theodorus (42) and Światosław (42).
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#1225 Tarek42
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#1226 Theodorus42
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#1227 Łazarz42
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#1228 Światosław42
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#1229 Anibal41