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Ziemowit

A Slavic name meaning "lord of the family". It stays rare in Poland: given to only a couple dozen boys last year, and one most Poles have never met in person.

Ziemowit Pronunciation

Ziemowit is pronounced zhe-MO-veet (/ʑɛˈmɔvit/).

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Siemowit
Alive in 2025
2,111
Newborns 2025
26
National rank
#688
Next name day
19 October
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What Ziemowit means

Where Ziemowit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Ziemowit comes from Slavic roots. The name it grew from makes a plain claim: władca rodu, lord of the family. The medieval chronicle of Gall Anonim, written around 1113, gives the Piast dynasty a legendary ancestor named Siemowit, the son of Piast the wheelwright. That ancestor is where the name begins.

The second part of the name, the element -wit, means lord or master, and it turns up in other old Polish names such as Jarowit and Świętowit. The first part points toward household and kin. Put together, the sense of a man set over his own people has stayed close to the name for centuries.

For a long stretch the name lived mostly in dynastic memory, attached to more than one Piast duke of Mazovia in the medieval period. It came back into ordinary use later. A child called Ziemowit today might meet his own name first on a class register, printed between more common ones. The meaning underneath stays the same: władca rodu.

When Ziemowit celebrates name day

Ziemowit appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 19 October.

Next name day
19 October
Monday in 2026
Next one in 39 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Ziemowit

1 in 10112 men in Poland is named Ziemowit. 2,111 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #688 among male names.

People with the name Ziemowit 2019 → 2025
2,111 +192 since 2019
2020 1,949 +30
2021 1,979 +30
2022 2,018 +39
2023 2,049 +31
2024 2,078 +29
2025 2,111 +33

Ziemowit's popularity over time

26 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #470 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.

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26 newborns with the name Ziemowit in 2025
national rank #470 that year

Where Ziemowit is most popular

Ziemowit is most popular in Lower Silesian, 68% above the national average (35 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+64%) and Greater Poland (+64%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Lesser Poland, 77% and 70% below average respectively.

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Ziemowit as a middle name

Ziemowit is a first name for 2,111 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,347, a 61/39 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 202nd, between Dorian (1,348) and Herbert (1,344).

As a first name
2,111
As a middle name
1,347
first name 61% middle name 39%
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