Serghei
Around 2,500 Polish men carry it, yet no boy has been given it in any year on record: a name quietly passing out of use. Its Slavic root means "servant", the one who serves.
Serghei Pronunciation
What Serghei means
Where Serghei comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Serghei grows from a Slavic root, and the meaning handed down with it is servant, in Polish sługa, the one who serves. The reading stays near the surface of the name rather than hidden beneath it.
In older usage a servant was no lowly figure. The word marked someone trusted with a duty, bound to a house or a lord by loyalty rather than by force. To serve was to be relied upon. A name built on that idea places a person inside a bond of obligation and care.
Say the name from a class register in a Polish school, and the older sense still holds. It answers plainly, without ornament.
The boy called Serghei carries a Slavic word for the one who serves.
How many people are named Serghei
1 in 8639 men in Poland is named Serghei. 2,471 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #643 among male names.