Pius
One of the rarest names on the register: only about thirty men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in years. It comes from the Latin for "pious" or "dutiful".
Pius Pronunciation
Pius is pronounced PYOOS (/pjus/).
What Pius means
Where Pius comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pius comes straight from Latin, where the word pius meant dutiful, loyal to family and country. Virgil made it famous. Across the Aeneid he calls his hero pius Aeneas, the man who carries his father out of burning Troy and honours what he owes.
Rome wore the word as a title before anyone used it as a first name. The emperor Antoninus earned the surname Pius in the second century for keeping faith with his predecessor. Later, twelve popes took Pius as their papal name, from Pius I to Pius XII. That kept the word alive in Latin prayer books and in Polish parishes.
In a Polish class register today, Pius draws the eye. It is short, Latin, and rare. On his imieniny he may find more than one date, since several saints named Pius sit in the calendar. The meaning stays close to the Roman one: dutiful and pious.
When Pius celebrates name day
Pius appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 11 July.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Pius
1 in 711540 men in Poland is named Pius. 30 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7538 among male names.
Pius as a middle name
Pius is a first name for 30 men in Poland and a middle name for another 114, a 21/79 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 656th, between Ismail (114) and Sergio (114).
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#654 Eduard115
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#655 Ismail114
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#656 Pius114
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#657 Sergio114
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#658 Alessandro113