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Eustachy

From Greek, carrying the sense of "fruitful, rich in grain". Only about a hundred men in Poland go by it and almost no boys get it now, so most Poles have never met one.

Eustachy Pronunciation

Eustachy is pronounced e-oos-TAH-khih (/ɛusˈtaxɨ/).

Alive in 2025
101
Newborns 2025
<2
National rank
#3429

What Eustachy means

Where Eustachy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Eustachy comes from the Greek Eustachios, built from eu, meaning "well," and stachys, meaning "ear of grain." The name reaches back to a field ready for harvest, and its plain sense is fruitful, rich in grain. The grain is the older meaning.

Greek gave the name and the Church carried it forward. Saint Eustachy, a Roman soldier in the old legends, became a patron of hunters, and his imieniny falls on 20 September. In a Polish class register the name looks formal, even a little grand. A boy named Eustachy learns early to spell it for teachers.

The name bends into other shapes. Eustachiusz is the fuller Latin variant, heavier on the tongue. Eustachia turns it toward a daughter. Each keeps the same root, the same ripe field of stachys.

When Eustachy celebrates name day

Eustachy appears 8 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 29 March.

Next name day
29 March
Monday in 2027
Next one in 200 days
Name days

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 Eustachy

1 in 211348 men in Poland is named Eustachy. 101 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3429 among male names.

People with the name Eustachy 2019 → 2025
101 -33 since 2019
2020 134 0
2021 123 -11
2022 115 -8
2023 112 -3
2024 109 -3
2025 101 -8

Eustachy's popularity over time

Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.

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<2 newborns with the name Eustachy in 2025
below the publication floor that year

Where Eustachy is most popular

Eustachy is most popular in Łódź, 1605% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).

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Eustachy as a middle name

Eustachy is a first name for 101 men in Poland and a middle name for another 182, a 36/64 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 504th, between Witalis (183) and Giovanni (181).

As a first name
101
As a middle name
182
first name 36% middle name 64%

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