Kuzma
Just 81 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The root is Greek, from kosmos: order and a sense of decency.
Kuzma Pronunciation
Kuzma is pronounced KOOZ-mah (/ˈkuzma/).
What Kuzma means
Where Kuzma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kuzma begins in Greek, in the word "kosmos", which named order and decency long before it named outer space. Behind it stands Saint Cosmas, a physician martyred with his brother Damian and remembered in the East as a healer who refused payment. Russian and Ukrainian speakers wore the Greek Kosmas down to Kuźma, shorter and rougher, a name that belonged to villages more than to salons.
The meaning stayed close to its root. Kuzma still points back to "kosmos", to order and a plain sort of decency.
By the nineteenth century the name felt ordinary across the Russian and Ukrainian countryside. It sat easily on farmhands and soldiers. In Poland it is rare, and a Kuzma read out from a school register would turn heads.
Cosmas and Damian share a feast on the twenty-sixth of September. The name that survives is Kuźma, from the Greek word for order.
How many people are named Kuzma
1 in 263533 men in Poland is named Kuzma. 81 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3938 among male names.
Kuzma's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.