Pankracy
From the Greek for "all-powerful", though the name now sits at the far edge of use in Poland: about 29 men carry it, and the records show no newborns at all. Most Poles have never met one.
Pankracy Pronunciation
Pankracy is pronounced pahnk-RAH-tsih (/pankˈrat͡sɨ/).
What Pankracy means
Where Pankracy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pankracy comes from the Greek Pankratios, built from pan, meaning "all", and kratos, meaning "power". The literal reading is all-powerful, in Polish wszechmocny. A young Roman martyr, Saint Pancras, carried it into the Christian calendar, and his cult spread the name across Europe.
In Poland the name keeps company with the weather. Pankracy shares his mid-May feast with Serwacy and Bonifacy, the cold gardeners that farmers once blamed for late frosts on the vines. His name-day lands on 12 May.
A boy named Pankracy today meets his own grandeur early. The name is long and formal, a weight for a small register in a first-grade class. Few Polish boys receive it now, which gives it a certain rarity. It has no common diminutive and no feminine pair. What stays is the old Greek arithmetic: all power gathered into one word, wszechmocny.
When Pankracy celebrates name day
Pankracy appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 12 May.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Pankracy
1 in 736075 men in Poland is named Pankracy. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7719 among male names.
Pankracy as a middle name
Pankracy is a first name for 29 men in Poland and a middle name for another 89, a 25/75 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 765th, between Mehmet (89) and Theo (89).
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#763 Khaled89
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#764 Mehmet89
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#765 Pankracy89
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#766 Theo89
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#767 Bernardyn88