Radowit
A Slavic name built from two plain words: `rad`, glad, and `wit`, ruler, for a sense of "glad to serve his lord". It stands with Radosław and Radomir now, but far rarer: most Poles will never meet a Radowit.
Radowit Pronunciation
Radowit is pronounced rah-DO-veet (/raˈdɔvit/).
What Radowit means
Where Radowit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Radowit belongs to the old stock of Slavic two-part names, the kind built from plain words joined at the seam. The first part, `rad`, means glad or willing. The second, `wit`, points to a lord or ruler. Put together they give the sense recorded for the name: a glad ruler, or in Polish, `rad swemu władcy`, one content with his lord.
Names of this shape were common among the early Slavs, who liked to wish a quality onto a child by naming it outright. Radowit sits beside better-known cousins like Radosław and Radomir, all sharing that first glad syllable `rad`.
The name is rare now. A teacher reading a class register in a Polish school is unlikely to find a Radowit among the Kacpers and Szymons. Yet it still turns up on official forms at the urząd, spelled the old way, needing no gloss once you know the parts.
The meaning stays legible: `rad`, glad, and `wit`, the ruler he is glad to serve.
When Radowit celebrates name day
Radowit appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 27 May.
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 Radowit
1 in 2668274 men in Poland is named Radowit. 8 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #19331 among male names.
Radowit's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Radowit as a middle name
Radowit is a first name for 8 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4413th, between Radowid (6) and Radzym (6).
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#4411 Poyraz6
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#4412 Radowid6
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#4413 Radowit6
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#4414 Radzym6
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#4415 Rakeshkumar6