Przemił
A Slavic name that stacks the intensifier `prze-` onto `mił`, "dear", for the sense of most pleasant. The full form is rare in Poland: on the birth certificate, while a bearer answers to Przemek everywhere else.
Przemił Pronunciation
Przemił is pronounced PSHE-meew (/ˈpʂɛmiw/).
What Przemił means
Where Przemił comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Przemił grows from Slavic roots. The prefix `prze-` intensifies whatever follows it, and the element `mił` means dear or pleasant. Put together, they give the sense the grounding records: very dear, most pleasant. This is the literal origin, not a meaning attached later.
That `mił` element is old and well travelled in Polish naming. It sits inside Miłosz, inside Bogumił, and inside the everyday adjective miły, which a Pole still uses for a kind or agreeable person. So Przemił belongs to a family of names built on affection rather than on battle or faith.
In practice the full form is rare, and the diminutive does the daily work. Przemek is the short name a bearer hears most: on a class register, from a friend across a room, on the roll call at school. The long form waits on the birth certificate and the imieniny card. A boy is Przemek to almost everyone. Przemił is the name underneath, the one that means most pleasant.
How many people are named Przemił
1 in 7115396 men in Poland is named Przemił. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #40652 among male names.
Przemił as a middle name
Przemił is a first name for 3 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 23/77 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3169th, between Prometeusz (10) and Radu (10).
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#3167 Pastor10
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#3168 Prometeusz10
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#3169 Przemił10
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#3170 Radu10
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#3171 Rafik10