Owidiusz
About 28 men in all of Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick in your memory. The root is Latin *ovis*, "sheep", the same word behind the Roman name Ovidius.
Owidiusz Pronunciation
Owidiusz is pronounced o-VEED-yoosh (/ɔˈvidjuʂ/).
What Owidiusz means
Where Owidiusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Owidiusz is the Polish form of the Latin name Ovidius, best known from the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, who wrote the Metamorphoses and died in exile on the Black Sea coast. The family name behind it, Ovidius, has long been tied to the Latin word ovis, meaning sheep, owca in Polish. The name reaches back to farms and flocks, to a word for one of the oldest animals people kept.
That farming sense sits oddly beside the poet's fame. A boy called Owidiusz today carries a name that points two ways at once, toward Roman verse and toward a herd on a hillside.
It is a rare name in Poland. On a class register it would stand out among the Jakubs and Szymons. The meaning stays plain under the literary weight: ovis, a sheep, owca.
When Owidiusz celebrates name day
Owidiusz appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 June.
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 Owidiusz
1 in 762364 men in Poland is named Owidiusz. 28 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7902 among male names.
Owidiusz as a middle name
Owidiusz is a first name for 28 men in Poland and a middle name for another 40, a 41/59 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1259th, between Niklas (40) and Sewer (40).
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#1257 Milosz40
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#1258 Niklas40
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#1259 Owidiusz40
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#1260 Sewer40
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#1261 Thor40