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Maurycy

A name on the way up: after quiet years it climbs steadily now, with more boys given it last year than at any point this century. From Latin, it carries the sense of "dark-skinned" or Moorish, and stays entirely a boy's name.

Maurycy Pronunciation

Maurycy is pronounced mah-oo-RIH-tsih (/mauˈrɨt͡sɨ/).

Alive in 2025
3,375
Newborns 2025
193
National rank
#567
Next name day
22 September
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What Maurycy means

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

Maurycy comes from the Latin Mauritius, a name built on the word Maurus, meaning a Moor. The short meaning follows plainly: dark-skinned, moorish. The Romans used Maurus for people from Mauretania, the northwest edge of Africa, so the name began as a description of where a man came from and how he looked.

Then came a soldier. Saint Maurice, a Roman legionary, was executed around the turn of the third and fourth centuries for refusing a pagan sacrifice. His cult spread across medieval Europe, and his likeness turned up on coats of arms and church banners. The Polish name day falls on 22 September, the date most Maurycys mark.

In a Polish class register the name still reads a little formally, five letters that most people shorten in speech. It has never been common, and that suits it. Before it ever meant a saint, the older sense held: dark-skinned, moorish.

When Maurycy celebrates name day

Maurycy appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 22 September.

Next name day
22 September
Wednesday in 2027
Next one in 332 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Maurycy

1 in 6325 men in Poland is named Maurycy. 3,375 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #567 among male names.

People with the name Maurycy 2019 → 2025
3,375 +819 since 2019
2020 2,618 +62
2021 2,749 +131
2022 2,896 +147
2023 3,045 +149
2024 3,192 +147
2025 3,375 +183

Maurycy's popularity over time

193 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #191 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.

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193 newborns with the name Maurycy in 2025
national rank #191 that year

Where parents choose Maurycy

Maurycy is most popular in Greater Poland, 109% above the national average (222 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+21%) and Lower Silesian (+16%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Opole, 71% and 69% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +109%
    1 in 970 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +21%
    1 in 1,674 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +16%
    1 in 1,746 babies
Chosen least
  • Holy Cross
    −71%
    1 in 6,929 babies
  • Opole
    −69%
    1 in 6,585 babies
  • Lubusz
    −43%
    1 in 3,547 babies

Maurycy as a middle name

Maurycy is a first name for 3,375 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,865, a 64/36 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 181st, between Zygfryd (1,911) and August (1,855).

As a first name
3,375
As a middle name
1,865
first name 64% middle name 36%
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