Genadiusz
Just over fifty men in Poland carry it, and not one has been born since 2000: most Poles will never meet a Genadiusz. The name comes from Greek and means "noble, generous".
Genadiusz Pronunciation
Genadiusz is pronounced ge-NAHD-yoosh (/gɛˈnadjuʂ/).
What Genadiusz means
Where Genadiusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Genadiusz traces back to the Greek Gennadios, built on the word gennadas, meaning noble or high-born. The same root carried a sense of generosity, the openhandedness expected of good birth. The name arrived holding two meanings at once: noble and generous.
History gives it a real bearer. Gennadios I served as Patriarch of Constantinople in the fifth century, and the name stayed alive in the Eastern Church for long after. It reached Polish along that Greek and Church Slavonic line, keeping its ending in the Latinised form Genadiusz.
In Poland the name is rare. A teacher reading a class register might pause on it once. That rarity is part of what it offers. Someone named Genadiusz shares his name with almost no one in the room.
The short meaning stays close to the origin. Szlachetny, hojny. Noble, generous. The Greek did not need centuries to gather that sense. It was there in gennadas from the start.
When Genadiusz celebrates name day
Genadiusz appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 5 June.
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 Genadiusz
1 in 402758 men in Poland is named Genadiusz. 53 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5140 among male names.
Genadiusz as a middle name
Genadiusz is a first name for 53 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4724th, between Gaëtan (5) and Georgij (5).
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#4722 Gaël5
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#4723 Gaëtan5
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#4724 Genadiusz5
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#4725 Georgij5
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#4726 Geovanny5