Hartmut
Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry this German name, and no boys have been given it in at least 25 years. It comes from Germanic roots meaning "brave mind".
Hartmut Pronunciation
Hartmut is pronounced KHAHRT-moot (/ˈxartmut/).
What Hartmut means
Where Hartmut comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hartmut is built from two Old High German words. The first is hart, hard or brave. The second is muot, mind or spirit. Put together they give the reading recorded in Polish as odważny duchem, brave in spirit. The meaning here is the plain origin, not a sense attached later. The roots say it directly.
The name has a documented past in German literature. In the medieval epic Kudrun, written down around 1230, Hartmut is a prince of Ormany who abducts the heroine and holds her for years. He is stubborn and unyielding, which fits the first half of his name well. That is a bearer you can check, not a legend invented for the meaning.
It stayed a German name. Bearers clustered among men born in the first half of the twentieth century, and it fell out of fashion after that.
On a Polish class register it would sit oddly among the Jakubs. Hartmut takes no Polish diminutive and no cross-gender variant. It stays Hartmut, hard and brave.
How many people are named Hartmut
1 in 217818 men in Poland is named Hartmut. 98 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3495 among male names.
Hartmut as a middle name
Hartmut is a first name for 98 men in Poland and a middle name for another 27, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1625th, between Félix (27) and Heinc (27).
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#1623 Ezechiel27
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#1624 Félix27
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#1625 Hartmut27
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#1626 Heinc27
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#1627 Hwan27