Siarhei
Around 13,500 men in Poland carry it, but no boys received it last year. A Slavic name from the Sergiusz family, meaning "servant".
Siarhei Pronunciation
Siarhei is pronounced shahr-KHE-ee (/ɕarˈxɛi/).
What Siarhei means
Where Siarhei comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Siarhei grows from Slavic ground, and its short meaning stays plain: servant, sługa in Polish. The name belongs to the east, where it is the Belarusian spelling of a name Polish speakers recognize in the cognate Sergiusz, and further off in Russian Siergiej. That kinship runs across borders while the spelling shifts.
Servant here points toward service and attendance, a word about what a person does for others rather than a title held over anyone. The gloss is old and steady.
Picture a school register in a border town, the teacher reading Siarhei aloud between two Polish surnames. The name sits there without translation, and everyone knows whom it means.
A name can name work. Siarhei does, quietly and without apology, and it keeps the Belarusian shape of Сяргей wherever it travels.
How many people are named Siarhei
1 in 1577 men in Poland is named Siarhei. 13,535 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #321 among male names.