Gniewosz
A genuinely Slavic name built on the root gniew, "anger" or "wrath". It stays rare enough that most Poles have never met one, though a small run of boys still gets it every year.
Gniewosz Pronunciation
Gniewosz is pronounced GNYE-vosh (/ˈgɲɛvɔʂ/).
What Gniewosz means
Where Gniewosz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gniewosz is a Slavic name built from an old root that survives in modern Polish as "gniew," meaning anger or wrath. Early Slavic parents drew names from strong feeling and open battle, and this one belongs to that stock, where a warrior's temper counted as a virtue rather than a fault.
The name has a real face in the record. Gniewosz of Dalewice, a nobleman and castellan at the court of King Władysław Jagiełło, appears in the chronicles after he spread slander against Queen Jadwiga and was forced to retract it in public. His life ties the name to ambition and courtly intrigue.
Polish nature borrowed the word too. "Gniewosz" is the common name for the smooth snake, Coronella austriaca, a shy and harmless reptile of sandy heaths.
The name is rare now. A boy called Gniewosz stands out on a class register, his name older than most around it. What he carries is a single root: gniew, the plain Polish word for anger.
How many people are named Gniewosz
1 in 71154 men in Poland is named Gniewosz. 300 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1742 among male names.
Gniewosz's popularity over time
17 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #550 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2011.
Where parents choose Gniewosz
Gniewosz is most popular in Lubusz, 253% above the national average (6 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Warmian-Masurian (+103%) and Greater Poland (+63%). It is least common in Masovian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 51% and 47% below average respectively.
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Lubusz
+253%1 in 8,276 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
+103%1 in 14,359 babies
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Greater Poland
+63%1 in 17,937 babies
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Masovian
−51%1 in 59,044 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−47%1 in 54,690 babies
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West Pomeranian
−31%1 in 42,213 babies
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Lubusz+253% 6 born1 in 8,276 babies+253%
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Warmian-Masurian+103% 5 born1 in 14,359 babies+103%
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Greater Poland+63% 12 born1 in 17,937 babies+63%
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Łódź+61% 7 born1 in 18,103 babies+61%
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Silesian+54% 12 born1 in 18,965 babies+54%
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Lesser Poland+42% 11 born1 in 20,629 babies+42%
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Opole+27% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies+27%
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Lower Silesian+12% 6 born1 in 26,189 babies+12%
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Lublin−15% 3 born1 in 34,225 babies−15%
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West Pomeranian−31% 2 born1 in 42,213 babies−31%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−47% 2 born1 in 54,690 babies−47%
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Masovian−51% 6 born1 in 59,044 babies−51%
Gniewosz as a middle name
Gniewosz is a first name for 300 men in Poland and a middle name for another 134, a 69/31 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 606th, between Matias (135) and Gustav (134).
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#604 Julien136
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#605 Matias135
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#606 Gniewosz134
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#607 Gustav134
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#608 Diter133