Medard
Fewer than 300 Polish men carry Medard, so most people here have never met one. Latin at root, it points to strength: a strong ruler, someone brave.
Medard Pronunciation
Medard is pronounced ME-dahrt (/ˈmɛdart/).
What Medard means
Where Medard comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Medard reaches Polish from Latin, and the meaning fixed to it is direct: power, the mark of a brave man. Short name, hard consonants, no softening.
Saint Medard, a bishop in sixth-century Gaul, gave the name its place on the calendar. Polish almanacs set his imieniny on the eighth of June. By tradition he had a twin brother, Gildard, also remembered as a saint. In France he became the saint people watched for weather, since rain on his feast was said to promise forty more days of it.
On a Polish school register the name sits between longer, more common ones, four letters and done. Whoever reads it aloud reads a word that once meant power, and brave.
When Medard celebrates name day
Medard appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 8 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Medard
1 in 81474 men in Poland is named Medard. 262 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1893 among male names.
Medard's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Medard as a middle name
Medard is a first name for 262 men in Poland and a middle name for another 312, a 46/54 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 396th, between Gniewko (312) and Winicjusz (312).
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#394 Zbyszko315
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#395 Gniewko312
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#396 Medard312
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#397 Winicjusz312
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#398 Angelo310