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Grzegorz

Nearly 370,000 Polish men carry it, a name most people have met more than once, though it fades now: only 314 boys got it last year. From Greek, it means watchful, vigilant.

Grzegorz Pronunciation

Grzegorz is pronounced GZHE-gosh (/ˈgʐɛgɔʂ/).

Related names
Gregor
Alive in 2025
372,329
Newborns 2025
314
National rank
#27
Next name day
17 November
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What Grzegorz means

Where Grzegorz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Grzegorz comes from the Greek Gregorios, built on the verb gregorein, to be watchful or vigilant. The old sense is plain: a person who keeps watch. That meaning traveled west with the early Church, settling into Latin as Gregorius and then into Polish as Grzegorz, with Gregor standing as its shorter variant.

Sixteen popes took the name, and one of them left a mark most of the world still reads by. Pope Gregory XIII, Grzegorz XIII in Polish, gave his name to the Gregorian calendar in 1582. So the watchman who measures time is folded into the name itself.

In a Polish szkoła the name shortens fast. On the class register it reads Grzegorz; by the second break it is Grzesiek or Grześ. The full form waits for the urząd and the imieniny.

Grześ is small and warm. Grzegorz keeps the older duty of the watchful one.

When Grzegorz celebrates name day

Grzegorz appears 25 times in the Polish name day calendar, 6 of them as a main name, the first on 13 February.

Next name day
17 November
Tuesday in 2026
Next one in 68 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Grzegorz

1 in 57 men in Poland is named Grzegorz. 372,329 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #27 among male names.

People with the name Grzegorz 2019 → 2025
372,329 -12,387 since 2019
2020 383,941 -775
2021 381,780 -2,161
2022 379,321 -2,459
2023 377,006 -2,315
2024 374,820 -2,186
2025 372,329 -2,491

Grzegorz's popularity over time

314 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #144 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #27 name among living men, even as it slips to #144 among newborns.

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314 newborns with the name Grzegorz in 2025
national rank #144 that year

Where Grzegorz is most popular

Grzegorz is most popular in Podlaskie, 50% above the national average (162 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+38%) and Pomeranian (+20%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lublin, 36% and 23% below average respectively.

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Grzegorz as a middle name

Grzegorz is a first name for 372,329 men in Poland and a middle name for another 196,022, a 66/34 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 13th, between Jerzy (196,547) and Marcin (190,107).

As a first name
372,329
As a middle name
196,022
first name 66% middle name 34%
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