Longin
From the Latin *longus*, "long". Only about 1,300 Polish men carry it today, and it's slipping away: no boys were given the name last year.
Longin Pronunciation
Longin is pronounced LON-geen (/ˈlɔngin/).
What Longin means
Where Longin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Longin comes into Polish from the Latin Longinus, a name resting on the adjective longus, meaning long, or in Polish długi. The old word for length sits inside the name, even where most bearers no longer see it.
Much of the name's later fame belongs to Saint Longin, the Roman centurion of Christian tradition who pierced the side of the crucified Christ with a spear. That lance became famous under his name, and the once nameless soldier was remembered as a convert and martyr. His feast, and so the Polish imieniny, falls on 15 March.
The feminine variant is Longina.
Longin is rare now. Read a school register on the first day of term and it stands out among the Kacpers and Szymons, an older form with a long root behind it. Whoever answers to it answers to a Latin word for long, długi, and to a spear that gave an anonymous man his name.
When Longin celebrates name day
Longin appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 March.
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 Longin
1 in 16208 men in Poland is named Longin. 1,317 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #842 among male names.
Longin's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Longin as a middle name
Longin is a first name for 1,317 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,155, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 219th, between Bahadur (1,163) and Jose (1,116).
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#217 Denis1,173
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#218 Bahadur1,163
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#219 Longin1,155
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#220 Jose1,116
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#221 Kordian1,111