Ondřej
Just 82 men in Poland carry it, and no newborns take it now: most people here have never met one. Greek at root, it carries the sense "manly".
Ondřej Pronunciation
Ondřej is pronounced OND-řey (/ˈɔndřɛj/).
What Ondřej means
Where Ondřej comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ondřej begins in a single Greek word. The root is andreios, "manly," built on andrós, "of a man." That gives the short meaning carried here: manly, in Polish mężny.
The name belongs to the same family as the apostle Andrew, in Greek Andreas. Andrew was a fisherman from Galilee, and in the Gospel of John he is among the first disciples called. Ondřej is the Czech form of that name, borne by the illustrator Ondřej Sekora, who drew Ferda the Ant, and by Ondřej Synek, an Olympic rower.
Say it once. The stress sits on the first syllable, the ř soft in the Czech mouth.
Read down a school register near the Czech border. Ondřej stands where a Polish list would hold Andrzej, the same name in two languages. The spelling shifts while the meaning holds: andreios, manly, mężny.
How many people are named Ondřej
1 in 260319 men in Poland is named Ondřej. 82 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3920 among male names.
Ondřej as a middle name
Ondřej is a first name for 82 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4392nd, between Oluwatobiloba (6) and Orland (6).
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#4390 Oluwaseyi6
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#4391 Oluwatobiloba6
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#4392 Ondrej6
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#4393 Orland6
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#4394 Ortwin6