Edmund
A steady comeback: more boys got the name last year than in any year this century, though meeting an Edmund is still memorable. Germanic at root, it joins the words for wealth and protection into a "rich protector".
Edmund Pronunciation
Edmund is pronounced ED-moont (/ˈɛdmunt/).
What Edmund means
Where Edmund comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Edmund grew from two Old Germanic roots: ēad, meaning wealth or riches, and mund, meaning protection. Read together they give the sense the name still carries in its short gloss, "rich protection." The Polish reading, bogaty opiekun, points to a guardian whose strength is abundance rather than a sword.
That pairing found a real bearer early. Edmund, king of East Anglia, was killed by Danish raiders around the year 869 and later venerated as a martyr and saint. His feast fixed one of the name's Polish imieniny on 20 November, a date Edmunds still mark in the calendar. A second name-day falls four days earlier, on 16 November.
The name reached Poland from the Anglo-Saxon and later English world, never spun into diminutives or a feminine form here. An Edmund stays Edmund on a school register or an urząd form, spelled the same, three syllables, no softening. In 2024 more than fourteen thousand men in Poland carried it.
What the two roots promise is plain enough. Wealth that shields. Rich protection, bogaty opiekun.
When Edmund celebrates name day
Edmund appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 30 October.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Edmund
1 in 1491 men in Poland is named Edmund. 14,321 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #314 among male names.
Edmund's popularity over time
54 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #342 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005. Still the #314 name among living men, even as it slips to #342 among newborns.
Where Edmund is most popular
Edmund is most popular in Pomeranian, 82% above the national average (28 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+81%) and Greater Poland (+69%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Łódź, 71% and 70% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian28 boys born+82%
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Masovian67 boys born+81%
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Greater Poland38 boys born+69%
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Lubusz7 boys born+35%
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Lesser Poland27 boys born+14%
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Lower Silesian18 boys born+10%
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Subcarpathian8 boys born−37%
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Silesian14 boys born−41%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian6 boys born−48%
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Lublin4 boys born−63%
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West Pomeranian3 boys born−66%
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Łódź4 boys born−70%
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Podlaskie2 boys born−71%
Edmund as a middle name
Edmund is a first name for 14,321 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14,569, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 94th, between Norbert (15,663) and Lech (13,771).
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#92 Feliks15,986
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#93 Norbert15,663
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#94 Edmund14,569
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#95 Lech13,771
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#96 Oskar13,343