Dacjusz
Fewer than two dozen Polish men carry it, and no boys have been given it since 2000: meeting one would be memorable. The name is Latin, from Dacia, the old Roman province.
Dacjusz Pronunciation
Dacjusz is pronounced DAHTS-yoosh (/ˈdat͡sjuʂ/).
What Dacjusz means
Where Dacjusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dacjusz comes straight from Latin, and it names a place rather than a trait. Dacia was the Roman province north of the Danube, taken by the emperor Trajan around 106 AD after two hard wars. The name keeps that ground in its meaning: "from Dacia", in Polish "pochodzący z Dacji".
Rome liked to mark people by land. Officials and soldiers could pick up a name from the territory they fought in or governed, and Dacius sat inside that habit. Dacjusz is the Polish form, shaped by the -usz ending that Polish hands to Latin names such as Klaudiusz and Marcjusz.
On a school register the name is rare. Read aloud at the urząd or in a class list, Dacjusz sends you back to a frontier province and to the Latin word for the people who lived there, the Daci.
When Dacjusz celebrates name day
Dacjusz appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 14 January.
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 Dacjusz
1 in 1123484 men in Poland is named Dacjusz. 19 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10200 among male names.
Dacjusz as a middle name
Dacjusz is a first name for 19 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2386th, between Cătălin (15) and Damir (15).
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#2384 Cherif15
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#2385 Cătălin15
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#2386 Dacjusz15
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#2387 Damir15
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#2388 Dara15