Łucjan
From the Latin for "light". Only about a thousand Polish men carry it, and it barely shows up on newborns now, so most Poles have never met one.
Łucjan Pronunciation
Łucjan is pronounced WOOTS-yahn (/ˈwut͡sjan/).
What Łucjan means
Where Łucjan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Łucjan traces back to the Latin Lucianus, a name grown from lux, the word for light. In Polish the short meaning stays close to that root: światło, light. The barred ł gives it a softer opening than the plain variant Lucjan, which you still find on official forms at the urząd.
The name has a real patron. Saint Lucian of Antioch, a priest and theologian who died around 312, set Łucjan in the church calendar, and his imieniny falls on the seventh of January.
Its relatives cross gender lines. Łucja and Lucjana are the feminine forms, each turning the same Latin light toward a daughter. Read the name in a school register and it sits among the boys, though its meaning belongs to anyone. The root is lux, and light is what Łucjan still means.
How many people are named Łucjan
1 in 19912 men in Poland is named Łucjan. 1,072 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #932 among male names.
Łucjan as a middle name
Łucjan is a first name for 1,072 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,333, a 45/55 split — almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 206th, between Oliver (1,337) and Andres (1,326).
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204
1,338Olivier
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205
1,337Oliver
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2061,333Łucjan
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207
1,326Andres
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208
1,304Alex