Serwacy
Almost gone from Poland: only about two dozen men carry it, and no boys received it last year. From Latin, the name means "saved" or "preserved", which reads as a quiet irony now that it barely survives.
Serwacy Pronunciation
Serwacy is pronounced ser-VAH-tsih (/sɛrˈvat͡sɨ/).
What Serwacy means
Where Serwacy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Serwacy comes from Latin, from the verb servare, to keep or save. The Roman name Servatius grew from it, and the Polish Serwacy is its descendant. The short meaning stays close to that root: saved and preserved.
For centuries the name belonged mostly to one man. Saint Servatius was a fourth-century bishop of Tongeren, and his feast falls on 13 May. In Poland that date put him among the zimni ogrodnicy, the cold gardeners: Pankracy on the 12th, Serwacy on the 13th, Bonifacy on the 14th. Gardeners watched these three days for late frost.
A boy named Serwacy carries a name tied to the calendar and the weather. On his imieniny, an older neighbour might warn against planting too soon.
The name is rare now. It keeps the plain sense it began with: preserved, zachowany.
When Serwacy celebrates name day
Serwacy appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 13 May.
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 Serwacy
1 in 970281 men in Poland is named Serwacy. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9442 among male names.
Serwacy as a middle name
Serwacy is a first name for 22 men in Poland and a middle name for another 104, a 17/83 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 699th, between Jeremy (104) and Wirgiliusz (104).
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#697 Mścisław105
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#698 Jeremy104
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#699 Serwacy104
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#700 Wirgiliusz104
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#701 Antoniusz103