Sergiy
Rare in Poland: barely 1,900 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one. The name traces to Latin Sergius and reaches Poland by way of Ukrainian, where its root sense is "servant".
Sergiy Pronunciation
Sergiy is pronounced SERG-yih (/ˈsɛrgjɨ/).
What Sergiy means
Where Sergiy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sergiy is the Ukrainian form of a name that reaches back to the Roman family name Sergius. Its Latin root is old, and its first sense is debated, so the meaning usually attached to it, "servant," belongs more to Christian tradition than to the Roman clan it started in. Polish records the same idea as sługa.
The name spread east through the Church. Saint Sergius of Radonezh, a central figure of Eastern Christian devotion, gave it lasting standing among the Slavs, and in Ukraine the form settled as Sergiy. So a Polish class register can now hold a Sergiusz and a Sergiy on the same page, one letter of spelling apart.
Read that "servant" as a vow rather than a wage. The servant here answers to God. And the plainest fact stays with the word itself: sługa.
How many people are named Sergiy
1 in 11409 men in Poland is named Sergiy. 1,873 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #723 among male names.
Sergiy's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Sergiy as a middle name
Sergiy is a first name for 1,873 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6833rd, between Seojun (3) and Servet (3).
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#6831 Seng3
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#6832 Seojun3
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#6833 Sergiy3
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#6834 Servet3
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#6835 Sevket3