Jerzy
Still one of the hundred most-given boys' names in Poland, and around 230,000 men already carry it. A Slavic name meaning farmer, one who works the earth.
Jerzy Pronunciation
Jerzy is pronounced YE-zhih (/ˈjɛʐɨ/).
What Jerzy means
Where Jerzy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jerzy comes down to Polish through Slavic forms, and its older sense points to the soil: an earthworker, a farmer, in Polish a rolnik. The variant Jurij and the everyday diminutive Jurek stay close beside it, the same name in a lighter coat. Jurij belongs more to the east, the same root worn by neighbours across the border.
On a class register in April, a boy named Jerzy shares his imieniny with Saint George, whose day falls on the twenty-third. The soldier-saint lent the name a knightly air, yet the plain meaning stayed farm-bound, someone who turns the earth.
For centuries Polish men have answered to it, statesmen and poets among them. Jurek does the daily work now. Under all of it sits the oldest sense, the rolnik, the one who works the ground.
When Jerzy celebrates name day
Jerzy appears 11 times in the Polish name day calendar, 5 of them as a main name, the first on 27 January.
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 Jerzy
1 in 93 men in Poland is named Jerzy. 229,562 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #53 among male names.
Jerzy's popularity over time
295 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #149 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001. Still the #53 name among living men, even as it slips to #149 among newborns.
Where parents choose Jerzy
Jerzy is most popular in Masovian, 54% above the national average (696 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+42%) and Pomeranian (+39%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Subcarpathian, 82% and 70% below average respectively.
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Masovian
+54%1 in 509 babies
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Greater Poland
+42%1 in 552 babies
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Pomeranian
+39%1 in 562 babies
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Holy Cross
−82%1 in 4,264 babies
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Subcarpathian
−70%1 in 2,621 babies
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Lublin
−56%1 in 1,770 babies
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Masovian+54% 696 born1 in 509 babies+54%
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Greater Poland+42% 390 born1 in 552 babies+42%
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Pomeranian+39% 262 born1 in 562 babies+39%
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Lower Silesian+10% 221 born1 in 711 babies+10%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−6% 132 born1 in 829 babies−6%
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Łódź−7% 150 born1 in 845 babies−7%
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West Pomeranian−13% 94 born1 in 898 babies−13%
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Silesian−15% 248 born1 in 918 babies−15%
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Lesser Poland−20% 231 born1 in 982 babies−20%
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Podlaskie−20% 67 born1 in 982 babies−20%
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Warmian-Masurian−20% 73 born1 in 983 babies−20%
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Lubusz−32% 43 born1 in 1,155 babies−32%
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Opole−36% 38 born1 in 1,213 babies−36%
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Lublin−56% 58 born1 in 1,770 babies−56%
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Subcarpathian−70% 46 born1 in 2,621 babies−70%
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Holy Cross−82% 13 born1 in 4,264 babies−82%
Jerzy as a middle name
Jerzy is a first name for 229,562 men in Poland and a middle name for another 196,547, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 12th, between Michał (235,734) and Grzegorz (196,022).
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#10 Marek248,808
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#11 Michał235,734
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#12 Jerzy196,547
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#13 Grzegorz196,022
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#14 Marcin190,107