Marcjusz
A Latin name meaning "belonging to Mars", the war god. Only around twenty men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in years: most Poles will never meet one.
Marcjusz Pronunciation
Marcjusz is pronounced MAHRTS-yoosh (/ˈmart͡sjuʂ/).
What Marcjusz means
Where Marcjusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Marcjusz traces back to Latin. Behind it stands Martius, a Roman name built from Mars, the god of war and, earlier, of farmland and spring. To be named Marcjusz is to be marked as dedicated to Mars, the sense the name still carries in Polish as należący do Marsa.
The root is Mars. From it the Latin month Martius took its name, and Polish marzec followed the same path. Names like Marcin and Marek grew from that soil too. Marcjusz kept the older Latin shape, closer to the god than to the calendar.
On a Polish class register, Marcjusz sits rare among rows of Marcins and Mareks. It reads as the formal, Latin cousin of the everyday Marek. What stays fixed under every spelling is the meaning: dedicated to Mars.
When Marcjusz celebrates name day
Marcjusz appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 March.
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 Marcjusz
1 in 1067309 men in Poland is named Marcjusz. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9984 among male names.
Marcjusz as a middle name
Marcjusz is a first name for 20 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 69/31 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3344th, between Marcio (9) and Martino (9).
-
#3342 Malwin9
-
#3343 Marcio9
-
#3344 Marcjusz9
-
#3345 Martino9
-
#3346 Masum9