Przemysł
Just two Polish men carry it today, so meeting one is close to impossible. The name is Slavic and built around thought: it marks the thinker, the one who reasons things through.
Przemysł Pronunciation
Przemysł is pronounced PSHE-mihsw (/ˈpʂɛmɨsw/).
What Przemysł means
Where Przemysł comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Przemysł comes from Slavic roots. The second part, mysł, is kin to the Polish myśl, meaning thought. So the name reads as thinker, or the one who thinks a thing through. The gloss przemyślny leans toward resourceful and shrewd. The same stem gives modern Polish przemysł, the ordinary word for industry.
History gives the name a crown. Przemysł II was crowned king of Poland in 1295 at Gniezno. He held Greater Poland before that. His name sat on coins and charters.
Most children today meet the fuller form first. Przemysław is the variant parents usually register, and Przemek is the diminutive friends use. On a school register the long name stands formal, then it shrinks to Przemek.
The short meaning stayed close to the root. Thinker, one who thinks through, przemyślny.
How many people are named Przemysł
1 in 10673094 men in Poland is named Przemysł. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #58644 among male names.