Petroniusz
Just fifteen men in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborn since 2000: most Poles have never met one. The root is Latin, meaning rock or stone.
Petroniusz Pronunciation
Petroniusz is pronounced pet-RO-nyoosh (/pɛtˈrɔɲuʂ/).
What Petroniusz means
Where Petroniusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Petroniusz comes from the Latin nomen Petronius, a family name Romans carried long before anyone used it as a first name. The grounding meaning is rock, stone, and in Polish twardy jak skała. Latin and Greek both knew petra, meaning rock, and that word feeds the modern sense. The stone was heard in Petronius later, since the original nomen had a plainer, more rustic ring.
One bearer stands out. Gaius Petronius Arbiter served at Nero's court and wrote the Satyricon. Henryk Sienkiewicz placed a Petronius at the center of Quo Vadis in 1896, and Polish readers have met the name in that novel ever since.
The name is rare. On a Polish class register today, a Petroniusz would sit alone, with no diminutive to soften it and no shorter form to duck behind. What the name offers is hardness, twardy jak skała.
When Petroniusz celebrates name day
Petroniusz appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 4 October.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Petroniusz
1 in 1423079 men in Poland is named Petroniusz. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12234 among male names.
Petroniusz as a middle name
Petroniusz is a first name for 15 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 31/69 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1457th, between Nick (33) and Rolando (33).
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#1455 Naidu33
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#1456 Nick33
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#1457 Petroniusz33
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#1458 Rolando33
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#1459 Timur33