Gniewomir
An old Slavic name that fuses two opposites: gniew "anger" and mir "peace". Rare enough that most Poles have never met one, but it's climbing again, with more boys given it last year than in most years past.
Gniewomir Pronunciation
Gniewomir is pronounced gnye-VO-meer (/gɲɛˈvɔmir/).
What Gniewomir means
Where Gniewomir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gniewomir comes from two old Slavic roots. The first is gniew, meaning anger or wrath. The second is mir, an ancient word that meant both peace and the ordered world. Put together they give the short meaning still printed on Polish name pages: anger and peace, gniew i pokój.
That pairing looks like a contradiction, yet Slavic compound names often held two forces at once, naming a wish for someone who could master his own temper. A Gniewomir was meant to command anger and then set it down.
The name shortens easily. Gniewko is the diminutive, softer and quicker, the form a teacher might read from a school register before the full Gniewomir appears on an official form at the urząd. Few children carry it now, which makes the ones who do stand out at once.
Its meaning was never gentle. Gniew is a hard word, and the name keeps it, balanced against mir, peace.
When Gniewomir celebrates name day
Gniewomir appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 8 February.
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 Gniewomir
1 in 24792 men in Poland is named Gniewomir. 861 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1022 among male names.
Gniewomir's popularity over time
58 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #326 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2007.
Where Gniewomir is most popular
Gniewomir is most popular in West Pomeranian, 53% above the national average (20 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+40%) and Masovian (+30%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lublin, 62% and 50% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian20 boys born+53%
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Lower Silesian34 boys born+40%
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Masovian71 boys born+30%
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Warmian-Masurian14 boys born+26%
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Greater Poland41 boys born+23%
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Opole8 boys born+12%
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Pomeranian24 boys born+5%
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Łódź18 boys born−8%
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Silesian32 boys born−9%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian13 boys born−23%
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Lesser Poland27 boys born−23%
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Podlaskie7 boys born−31%
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Lubusz5 boys born−35%
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Świętokrzyskie5 boys born−42%
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Lublin8 boys born−50%
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Subcarpathian7 boys born−62%
Gniewomir as a middle name
Gniewomir is a first name for 861 men in Poland and a middle name for another 280, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 420th, between Krystyn (282) and Roberto (280).
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#418 Joel283
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#419 Krystyn282
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#420 Gniewomir280
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#421 Roberto280
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#422 Esteban279