Makary
From Greek, and the sense is a sunny one: blessed and happy. Fewer than 500 men in Poland carry it, always a boys' name, so most people here have never met one.
Makary Pronunciation
Makary is pronounced mah-KAH-rih (/maˈkarɨ/).
What Makary means
Where Makary comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Makary comes from the Greek makários, a word for blessed and happy. The same adjective opens the Beatitudes, where each line begins with a person called blessed. So the name reaches back to a term that graded a whole life rather than describing a face or a trade.
Its closest relative is the variant Makarii, the form kept in the Christian East, where the name sounded that way from the start. Both point to Macarius of Egypt, a fourth-century desert monk whose sayings were copied for centuries after his death. Through him the name moved west and settled into Polish church calendars, where an imieniny for Makary falls in January.
Picture a school register with one Makary in the class. The meaning stayed simple. The teacher reads the name, and it says what it always said: blessed and happy.
When Makary celebrates name day
Makary appears 11 times in the Polish name day calendar, 5 of them as a main name, the first on 2 January.
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 Makary
1 in 47754 men in Poland is named Makary. 447 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1398 among male names.
Makary's popularity over time
7 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #822 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.
Where parents choose Makary
Makary is most popular in Lower Silesian, 132% above the national average (12 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+126%) and Pomeranian (+65%). It is least common in Silesian and Subcarpathian, 73% and 50% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian
+132%1 in 13,095 babies
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Greater Poland
+126%1 in 13,453 babies
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Pomeranian
+65%1 in 18,415 babies
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Silesian
−73%1 in 113,792 babies
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Subcarpathian
−50%1 in 60,283 babies
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Lesser Poland
−33%1 in 45,383 babies
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Lower Silesian+132% 12 born1 in 13,095 babies+132%
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Greater Poland+126% 16 born1 in 13,453 babies+126%
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Pomeranian+65% 8 born1 in 18,415 babies+65%
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Masovian+46% 17 born1 in 20,839 babies+46%
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Lubusz+23% 2 born1 in 24,829 babies+23%
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Podlaskie−7% 2 born1 in 32,893 babies−7%
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West Pomeranian−28% 2 born1 in 42,213 babies−28%
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Łódź−28% 3 born1 in 42,239 babies−28%
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Lesser Poland−33% 5 born1 in 45,383 babies−33%
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Subcarpathian−50% 2 born1 in 60,283 babies−50%
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Silesian−73% 2 born1 in 113,792 babies−73%
Makary as a middle name
Makary is a first name for 447 men in Poland and a middle name for another 336, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 383rd, between Wawrzyn (337) and Bonawentura (330).
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#381 Ibrahim337
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#382 Wawrzyn337
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#383 Makary336
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#384 Bonawentura330
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#385 Jarema330