Idzi
A Latin name that once meant "young goat." In Poland it stays rare: only around 400 men carry it, so most people go a lifetime without meeting one.
Idzi Pronunciation
Idzi is pronounced EE-jee (/ˈid͡ʑi/).
What Idzi means
Where Idzi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Idzi is the Polish form of the Latin Aegidius, itself taken from the Greek Aigidios. Underneath lies the Greek word aigis, a goatskin, and the diminutive that names a young goat, a kid. That same aigis was the shield of Athena, and the Polish gloss holds on to that second reading: tarcza, an oaken shield. One name, two pictures.
The name reached Poland through Saint Giles, Święty Idzi, a hermit counted among the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Polish tradition binds him to one famous birth. Władysław Herman and his wife Judyta, long without a son, sent a gift of gold to the abbey of Saint-Gilles in Provence and prayed for a child; the boy born to them was Bolesław Krzywousty, whose story opens the chronicle of Gallus Anonymus.
His name-day falls on the first of September. These days you will rarely meet the name in a school register, set down in four plain letters: Idzi.
When Idzi celebrates name day
Idzi appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 1 September.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Idzi
1 in 55158 men in Poland is named Idzi. 387 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1508 among male names.
Idzi's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Idzi as a middle name
Idzi is a first name for 387 men in Poland and a middle name for another 878, a 31/69 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 242nd, between Alejandro (878) and Miguel (877).
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#240 Henry884
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#241 Alejandro878
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#242 Idzi878
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#243 Miguel877
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#244 George870