Marcin
Close to half a million Polish men carry it, yet it barely gets given now: just 195 boys last year. The name traces back to Mars, the Roman god of war, and carries the sense "warlike".
Marcin Pronunciation
Marcin is pronounced MAHR-cheen (/ˈmart͡ɕin/).
What Marcin means
Where Marcin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Marcin points back to Mars, the Roman god of war, and the short meaning stays close to that root: warlike, one dedicated to Mars. In Polish the sense is wojowniczy, poświęcony Marsowi. The name reached Polish in its Slavic form and stayed there.
On the eleventh of November the name day arrives with Saint Martin. In Poznań that date means rogale świętomarcińskie, crescent pastries baked with white poppy seed for the occasion. That baking tradition belongs to Poznań. So a name bound to a war god shares its feast with sweet dough. Marcin holds both.
A variant walks beside it: Martyn, a thinner spelling of the same name. Write Marcin in a school register and you have named a boy for Mars, warlike.
How many people are named Marcin
1 in 48 men in Poland is named Marcin. 448,444 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15 among male names.
Marcin's popularity over time
195 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #187 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #15 name among living men, even as it slips to #187 among newborns.
Where Marcin is most popular
Marcin is most popular in Opole, 69% above the national average (83 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Podlaskie (+31%) and Lower Silesian (+13%). It is least common in Warmian-Masurian and Łódź, both 19% below average.
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Opole83 boys born+69%
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Podlaskie92 boys born+31%
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Lower Silesian190 boys born+13%
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Greater Poland260 boys born+13%
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Silesian262 boys born+8%
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Lubusz56 boys born+6%
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Pomeranian160 boys born+2%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian117 boys born0%
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Lesser Poland235 boys born−3%
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Subcarpathian123 boys born−4%
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Lublin104 boys born−5%
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West Pomeranian82 boys born−9%
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Masovian320 boys born−15%
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Świętokrzyskie49 boys born−17%
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Warmian-Masurian62 boys born−19%
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Łódź110 boys born−19%
Marcin as a middle name
Marcin is a first name for 448,444 men in Poland and a middle name for another 190,107, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 14th, between Grzegorz (196,022) and Wojciech (189,825).
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12
196,547Jerzy
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13
196,022Grzegorz
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14190,107Marcin
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15
189,825Wojciech
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16
174,086Łukasz
When Marcin celebrates name day
Marcin appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 30 January.