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Liam

A newcomer in Poland that keeps climbing: more boys were given it last year than in any year before, and only boys carry it. Still, it stays rare enough that most Poles have never met a Liam. The Celtic name reads as strong-willed protector.

Liam Pronunciation

Liam is pronounced LYAHM (/ljam/).

Alive in 2025
1,856
Newborns 2025
317
National rank
#728

What Liam means

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

Liam began in Irish, a Celtic tongue, as a clipped form of Uilliam. Behind it sits a plain idea: a strong-willed protector, someone who guards what matters and does not back down. The Celtic root gave the name its shape, and English speakers carried it far past Ireland, so today a boy called Liam might grow up in Dublin, London, or Kraków alike.

The meaning does real work here. To carry Liam is to carry the sense of defense, of standing between trouble and the people you love. That reading has stayed close to the name for centuries, long after most bearers stopped speaking any Celtic language at all.

Picture a first-grade register in a Polish school: Liam listed among the Jakubs and Antonis, foreign in spelling yet easy on the tongue. The name caught on in Poland. The name is short. It travels well across borders and paperwork, and at the urząd nobody stumbles over it. What stays, in the end, is that older promise: silny obrońca, a strong-willed protector.

How many people are named Liam

1 in 11532 men in Poland is named Liam. 1,856 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #728 among male names.

People with the name Liam 2019 → 2025
1,856 +1,376 since 2019
2020 568 +88
2021 700 +132
2022 888 +188
2023 1,100 +212
2024 1,460 +360
2025 1,856 +396

Liam's popularity over time

317 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #142 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.

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317 newborns with the name Liam in 2025
national rank #142 that year

Where parents choose Liam

Liam is most popular in West Pomeranian, 125% above the national average (100 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+53%) and Opole (+53%). It is least common in Lublin and Podlaskie, 56% and 54% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • West Pomeranian
    +125%
    1 in 844 babies
  • Lubusz
    +53%
    1 in 1,241 babies
  • Opole
    +53%
    1 in 1,246 babies
Chosen least
  • Lublin
    −56%
    1 in 4,278 babies
  • Podlaskie
    −54%
    1 in 4,112 babies
  • Holy Cross
    −42%
    1 in 3,261 babies

Liam as a middle name

Liam is a first name for 1,856 men in Poland and a middle name for another 308, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 401st, between Celestyn (309) and Camilo (307).

As a first name
1,856
As a middle name
308
first name 86% middle name 14%
Middle-name ranking men

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