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First name · Masculine

Liam

A newcomer in Poland that keeps climbing: more boys were given it last year than in any year before, and only boys carry it. Still, it stays rare enough that most Poles have never met a Liam. The Celtic name reads as strong-willed protector.

Liam Pronunciation

Liam is pronounced LYAHM (/ljam/).

Alive in 2025
1,856
Newborns 2025
317
National rank
#728
Meaning & Origin

What Liam means

Where Liam comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Liam began in Irish, a Celtic tongue, as a clipped form of Uilliam. Behind it sits a plain idea: a strong-willed protector, someone who guards what matters and does not back down. The Celtic root gave the name its shape, and English speakers carried it far past Ireland, so today a boy called Liam might grow up in Dublin, London, or Kraków alike.

The meaning does real work here. To carry Liam is to carry the sense of defense, of standing between trouble and the people you love. That reading has stayed close to the name for centuries, long after most bearers stopped speaking any Celtic language at all.

Picture a first-grade register in a Polish school: Liam listed among the Jakubs and Antonis, foreign in spelling yet easy on the tongue. The name caught on in Poland. The name is short. It travels well across borders and paperwork, and at the urząd nobody stumbles over it. What stays, in the end, is that older promise: silny obrońca, a strong-willed protector.

How many

How many people are named Liam

1 in 11532 men in Poland is named Liam. 1,856 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #728 among male names.

Living Liams · 2019 → 2025
1,856 +1,376 since 2019
+88 2020
+132 2021
+188 2022
+212 2023
+360 2024
+396 2025
Trend

Liam's popularity over time

317 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #142 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.

317 newborn Liams in 2025
national rank #142 that year
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Regions

Where Liam is most popular

Liam is most popular in West Pomeranian, 125% above the national average (100 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+53%) and Opole (+53%). It is least common in Lublin and Podlaskie, 56% and 54% below average respectively.

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Middle name

Liam as a middle name

Liam is a first name for 1,856 men in Poland and a middle name for another 308, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 401st, between Celestyn (309) and Camilo (307).

As a first name
1,856
As a middle name
308
first name · 86% middle name · 14%
Middle-name ranking · men

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