Patrycjan
Just 32 men in Poland carry it, and no newborn has been given it since the records start in 2000. Latin at root, from patricius, "nobleman", a member of Rome's old ruling class. It stands as the masculine side of the far more common Patrycja.
Patrycjan Pronunciation
Patrycjan is pronounced paht-RIHTS-yahn (/patˈrɨt͡sjan/).
What Patrycjan means
Where Patrycjan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Patrycjan comes from Latin, from patricius, the word Rome used for a member of its founding aristocracy. Behind patricius sits pater, father, so the patrician was one of the fathers of the city, a man of the senatorial houses. The Polish meaning follows that line: szlachetnie urodzony, nobly born, a patrician.
Most Polish ears meet the feminine form first. Patrycja is common in classrooms and on official forms, while Patrycjan stays rarer, its close male cousin. The two share one root and one sense, nobleman on the one side, noblewoman on the other.
A short note. The name marks rank, not character. A Roman patrician held his place by birth, and the word made no claim about kindness or worth. When a teacher reads Patrycjan from a class register, the older Latin patricius, nobly born, stands behind the modern Polish spelling.
How many people are named Patrycjan
1 in 667068 men in Poland is named Patrycjan. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7192 among male names.
Patrycjan as a middle name
Patrycjan is a first name for 32 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1818th, between Otmar (23) and Ramzi (23).
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#1816 Nour23
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#1817 Otmar23
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#1818 Patrycjan23
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#1819 Ramzi23
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#1820 Rikardo23