Leoncjusz
Only about 40 men in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns given it since 2000. It comes from Greek and means "lion", a root it shares with the name Leontii.
Leoncjusz Pronunciation
Leoncjusz is pronounced le-ONTS-yoosh (/lɛˈɔnt͡sjuʂ/).
What Leoncjusz means
Where Leoncjusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Leoncjusz begins with a Greek word, "leon", the lion. Greek gave "Leontios", Latin reshaped it into Leontius, and Polish settled on Leoncjusz. The meaning stays fixed. It means lion, lew in Polish. The word for the animal barely shifted on the way.
The name traveled with the early church. A Byzantine emperor named Leontios ruled from 695 to 698, and several martyrs bore the Greek form before him. It reached Poland already old, worn smooth by Greek and Latin use.
The variant Leontii keeps the stress closer to the Greek. The cross-gender Leontyna hands the same lion to a daughter. A boy given the name today might stand alone on the class register. The root holds firm: leon, still the lion.
When Leoncjusz celebrates name day
Leoncjusz appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 13 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 Leoncjusz
1 in 533655 men in Poland is named Leoncjusz. 40 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6138 among male names.
Leoncjusz as a middle name
Leoncjusz is a first name for 40 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5565th, between Leoncio (4) and Letosław (4).
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#5563 Lemuel4
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#5564 Leoncio4
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#5565 Leoncjusz4
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#5566 Letosław4
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#5567 Ligiusz4