Askaniusz
Fewer than 50 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in years: most Poles have never met an Askaniusz. The name is Greek, meaning "from Ascania".
Askaniusz Pronunciation
Askaniusz is pronounced ahs-KAH-nyoosh (/asˈkaɲuʂ/).
What Askaniusz means
Where Askaniusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Askaniusz begins in Greek, in the name Askanios. The meaning is plain: from Ascania. Ascania was a region in Asia Minor, and a lake carried the same name, Lake Ascania, near the old city of Nicaea. So the name fixes a person to a place, the way a surname would do later.
Its best-known bearer lives in a poem. In Virgil's Aeneid, Ascanius is the young son of Aeneas, also called Iulus, and Roman writers named him forefather of the Julian family. By that route the name passed into Latin and moved west.
In Poland Askaniusz stays rare. It has no diminutive of its own and no standard variant, so it arrives whole. A teacher reading a class register meets it once and does not forget it. Behind the sound sits one steady sense: someone from Ascania.
When Askaniusz celebrates name day
Askaniusz appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 10 July.
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 Askaniusz
1 in 435636 men in Poland is named Askaniusz. 49 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5387 among male names.
Askaniusz as a middle name
Askaniusz is a first name for 49 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2290th, between Ashton (16) and Ayaan (16).
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#2288 Aryan16
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#2289 Ashton16
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#2290 Askaniusz16
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#2291 Ayaan16
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#2292 Barnim16