Genadi
From the Greek gennadas, a word for someone noble and well-born, that reached Polish as Genadi. Just 174 men carry it here, with no newborns recorded since 2000, so most Poles have never met one.
Genadi Pronunciation
Genadi is pronounced ge-NAH-dee (/gɛˈnadi/).
What Genadi means
Where Genadi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Genadi comes from Greek. It traces back to "gennadas," a word for a person noble and well-born, which grew into the name Gennadios before reaching Polish as Genadi. The short meaning holds that sense in one phrase: noble, well-born.
The name has a long paper trail. Gennadios Scholarios became the first Patriarch of Constantinople after the city fell in 1453, and he signed church documents under that old root. Earlier still, a fifth-century priest called Gennadius of Massilia compiled lists of Christian authors. Men who carried the name often left records behind them.
In Poland the form Genadi is rare. A teacher reading a class register might pause on it once and set the accent by ear. The Greek root does the explaining. Whoever answers to Genadi answers to a word that meant well-born.
How many people are named Genadi
1 in 122679 men in Poland is named Genadi. 174 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2413 among male names.
Genadi as a middle name
Genadi is a first name for 174 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7732nd, between Gelu (2) and Genesis (2).
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#7730 Geir2
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#7731 Gelu2
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#7732 Genadi2
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#7733 Genesis2
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#7734 Genowef2