Remigiusz
Latin at root, from a word for an oarsman or rower. Rare enough that meeting one sticks with you, yet it's climbing: more boys got the name last year than in any recent year, and it goes only to boys.
Remigiusz Pronunciation
Remigiusz is pronounced re-MEEG-yoosh (/rɛˈmigjuʂ/).
What Remigiusz means
Where Remigiusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Remigiusz begins in Latin, in the noun remex, remigis, an oarsman. The short meaning holds to that root: oarsman, rower, the one who works the oars. The sense is physical, tied to muscle and water rather than to any abstraction.
The name traveled through the Church. Saint Remigius of Reims, known in French as Remi, baptized the Frankish king Clovis around the year 496, and his feast helped bring the Latin form into wider use. In Poland the name day falls on 1 October.
Remigiusz has a cross-gender partner in Remigia, the feminine form, rarer but built from the same root. Found on a school register, the name still points back to the oars. The meaning is plain. Behind it stands an oarsman.
When Remigiusz celebrates name day
Remigiusz appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 1 October.
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 Remigiusz
1 in 1116 men in Poland is named Remigiusz. 19,126 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #282 among male names.
Remigiusz's popularity over time
373 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #135 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2013.
Where Remigiusz is most popular
Remigiusz is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 42% above the national average (92 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+38%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+26%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Greater Poland, 28% and 27% below average respectively.
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Warmian-Masurian92 boys born+42%
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Pomeranian183 boys born+38%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian124 boys born+26%
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Łódź135 boys born+18%
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Subcarpathian125 boys born+15%
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Silesian227 boys born+10%
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Podlaskie60 boys born+1%
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Lublin90 boys born−3%
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Masovian298 boys born−7%
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Lubusz40 boys born−11%
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Lesser Poland179 boys born−13%
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Lower Silesian122 boys born−14%
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West Pomeranian65 boys born−15%
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Opole34 boys born−18%
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Greater Poland141 boys born−27%
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Świętokrzyskie36 boys born−28%
Remigiusz as a middle name
Remigiusz is a first name for 19,126 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5,954, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 124th, between Alan (6,025) and Ksawery (5,466).
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#122 Leonard6,040
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#123 Alan6,025
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#124 Remigiusz5,954
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#125 Ksawery5,466
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#126 Kajetan5,396