Sean
Celtic at root, carrying the sense "God is gracious". Fewer than 500 Polish men hold it, most of them born in the 2000s, and it has all but stopped being given: a name almost no one here has met.
Sean Pronunciation
Sean is pronounced SE-ahn (/ˈsɛan/).
What Sean means
Where Sean comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sean comes to us from Irish, the Gaelic form of the name John. Its roots are Celtic in shape, though the meaning reaches further back. The sense god is gracious came from the Hebrew name Yohanan, carried into Irish through John.
In English-speaking countries the spelling settled without an accent, and Sean grew familiar from Dublin to Boston. Actors and footballers wore it. It travelled well.
For a Polish child the name arrives already foreign, and the appeal lies partly there. On a class register in Warsaw, a Sean might sit a few desks from a Szymon, two names built on the same old idea. The Polish reading of that sense is bóg jest łaskawy. That is what the Gaelic form keeps under its unfamiliar spelling: god is gracious.
How many people are named Sean
1 in 46405 men in Poland is named Sean. 460 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1379 among male names.
Sean's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Sean as a middle name
Sean is a first name for 460 men in Poland and a middle name for another 181, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 508th, between Magnus (181) and Rajnold (180).
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#506 Karim181
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#507 Magnus181
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#508 Sean181
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#509 Rajnold180
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#510 Reinhold180