Nazariusz
One of the rarest men's names in Poland: just 11 people carry it, and no boys were given it last year. It comes from the Greek Nazarios, built on Nazareth, so at root it names someone from that town in Galilee.
Nazariusz Pronunciation
Nazariusz is pronounced nah-ZAHR-yoosh (/naˈzarjuʂ/).
What Nazariusz means
Where Nazariusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nazariusz reached Polish from the Greek Nazarios, a name built on Nazareth, the town in Galilee. Its root is a place. The short meaning holds to that root: pochodzący z Nazaretu, one who comes from Nazareth.
History gives the name an early bearer. Saint Nazarius, a martyr honored in Milan, whose relics Saint Ambrose is recorded as recovering in the fourth century. Through him Nazarios entered Christian calendars, and later Polish use.
Polish kept more than one shape of it. The variants nazarij and nazary stand near the fuller Nazariusz, and the diminutive nazar handles the everyday register. On an imieniny marked for the twenty-eighth of July, it is Nazariusz that a priest reads from the calendar, though the same man answers to nazar.
When Nazariusz celebrates name day
Nazariusz appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 10 May.
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 Nazariusz
1 in 1940563 men in Poland is named Nazariusz. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15317 among male names.
Nazariusz as a middle name
Nazariusz is a first name for 11 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8406th, between Nayeem (2) and Nazih (2).
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#8404 Nayden2
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#8405 Nayeem2
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#8406 Nazariusz2
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#8407 Nazih2
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#8408 Nazmi̇2