Ovidiu
Just 51 Polish men carry it, and most people here will never meet one. The name is Latin, built on a root that means "sheep".
Ovidiu Pronunciation
What Ovidiu means
Where Ovidiu comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ovidiu is the Romanian form of the old Roman family name Ovidius, and its origin is Latin. Latin gave it its shape. Scholars have linked Ovidius to the Latin noun ovis, "sheep", and that link is why Polish readers meet it as owca, or owieczka. The animal of the pasture sits under a poet's name.
Its most famous bearer wrote in that same Latin. Publius Ovidius Naso, the poet known as Ovid, was banished by the emperor Augustus around AD 8 to Tomis, a Black Sea town that is now the Romanian city of Constanța. He died in exile there. A square still bears his name, Piața Ovidiu, with a statue of the poet above it.
In Poland the name stays rare, more familiar in its Latin dress as Owidiusz on a reading list than as Ovidiu on a class register. Behind both spellings waits the same small word, ovis, the sheep.
How many people are named Ovidiu
1 in 418553 men in Poland is named Ovidiu. 51 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5299 among male names.
Ovidiu as a middle name
Ovidiu is a first name for 51 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2986th, between Ostap (11) and Oğulcan (11).
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#2984 Onyekachi11
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#2985 Ostap11
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#2986 Ovidiu11
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#2987 Oğulcan11
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#2988 Oğuz11