Sergiej
A Russian-inflected form of Sergiusz, from a Slavic root meaning "servant of God". Only about 157 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one.
Sergiej Pronunciation
Sergiej is pronounced SERG-yey (/ˈsɛrgjɛj/).
What Sergiej means
Where Sergiej comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sergiej reaches Polish through Russian, where it names men across churches and villages. Its Polish counterpart is Sergiusz, the form you meet on a birth certificate or an official form at the urząd. The short meaning given to it is servant, in Polish sługa boży.
That sense of servant of God came to the name later, from the church rather than from any root. Sergiusz of Radoneż, the fourteenth-century monk who founded the Trinity monastery near Moscow, made the name a byword for devotion. Men who carried it after him wore that association, whether they asked for it or not.
In a Polish class register, Sergiej sits among the harder foreign spellings. The teacher pauses. The name marks its bearer as coming from somewhere east, or from a family that kept the Russian form when others took Sergiusz.
To carry Sergiej is to hold two versions at once, the Russian one on a passport, the Polish one a neighbour reaches for. The meaning stays constant under both. Servant, sługa boży, the sense the monk of Radoneż fixed to the name.
How many people are named Sergiej
1 in 135963 men in Poland is named Sergiej. 157 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2576 among male names.
Sergiej's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Sergiej as a middle name
Sergiej is a first name for 157 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1889th, between Sander (22) and Tahir (22).
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