Sergej
A Slavic name that reached Poland from the east, glossed as servant, in Polish sługa, the sense of answering to something larger than yourself. Fewer than 200 men carry it here, so meeting one stays in the memory.
Sergej Pronunciation
Sergej is pronounced SER-gey (/ˈsɛrgɛj/).
What Sergej means
Where Sergej comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sergej reaches Polish ears as a Slavic name that most people would sort under Russian. It travelled west with neighbours and with the church calendar, and in Poland it keeps that eastern accent: the soft ending, the stress a Polish speaker does not expect.
Dictionaries gloss it as servant or attendant, in Polish sługa. That reading came later. It works less as a first meaning than as a role fastened to the name over time, the sense of answering to something larger than yourself, a household or a monastery.
The best known bearer is Sergius of Radonezh, the fourteenth-century monk who founded the great monastery north of Moscow and became a patron of Russia. His feast holds a place on the calendar. On a Polish class register the name still stands apart, two blunt syllables among the Piotrs and Pawełs, and it carries its old gloss without hiding it: sługa, servant.
How many people are named Sergej
1 in 114151 men in Poland is named Sergej. 187 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2320 among male names.
Sergej's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Sergej as a middle name
Sergej is a first name for 187 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5016th, between Sergei (5) and Sergey (5).
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#5014 Serafim5
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#5015 Sergei5
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#5016 Sergej5
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#5017 Sergey5
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#5018 Severino5