Mamert
Only about 25 living Polish men carry it, and no boy has been given it in over two decades. From Latin, the name means "dedicated to Mars", the Roman god of war.
Mamert Pronunciation
Mamert is pronounced MAH-mert (/ˈmamɛrt/).
What Mamert means
Where Mamert comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mamert comes from Latin, and behind it stands the god of war. The short meaning runs plainly: dedicated to Mars, poświęcony Marsowi. The Oscan people of southern Italy called Mars Mamers, and the mercenaries who took that name became the Mamertines. So the name reaches back to soldiers who claimed a war god as their own.
For Poland the name arrived through a saint. Mamert, or Mamertus, was a bishop of Vienne in the fifth century, remembered for starting the Rogation Days before Ascension. His name day falls on 11 May, which places him among the zimni ogrodnicy, the cold gardeners whose feasts warn of a late frost.
The cross-gender form is Mamerta. It is rare. Read out from a class register today, Mamert sounds older than most of the boys around it. The meaning stays fixed where it began: dedicated to Mars.
When Mamert celebrates name day
Mamert appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 11 May.
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 Mamert
1 in 853848 men in Poland is named Mamert. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8570 among male names.
Mamert as a middle name
Mamert is a first name for 25 men in Poland and a middle name for another 56, a 31/69 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1000th, between Liwiusz (56) and Mathieu (56).
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#998 Joaquin56
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#999 Liwiusz56
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#1000 Mamert56
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#1001 Mathieu56
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#1002 Petteri56