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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/).

Related names
Martín
Alive in 2025
448,444
Newborns 2025
195
National rank
#15
Next name day
24 October
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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.

When Marcin celebrates name day

Marcin appears 15 times in the Polish name day calendar, 5 of them as a main name, the first on 30 January.

Next name day
24 October
Saturday in 2026
Next one in 44 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 Marcin

1 in 48 men in Poland is named Marcin. 448,444 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15 among male names.

People with the name Marcin 2019 → 2025
448,444 -5,108 since 2019
2020 453,304 -248
2021 452,520 -784
2022 451,581 -939
2023 450,609 -972
2024 449,607 -1,002
2025 448,444 -1,163

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.

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195 newborns with the name Marcin in 2025
national rank #187 that year

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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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).

As a first name
448,444
As a middle name
190,107
first name 70% middle name 30%
Middle-name ranking men

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