Winicjusz
A Latin name tied to wine, carried by only about 300 men in all of Poland: meet one and you'll remember it. After years of near-silence it's showing up on birth records again, always for boys.
Winicjusz Pronunciation
Winicjusz is pronounced vee-NYEETS-yoosh (/viˈɲit͡sjuʂ/).
What Winicjusz means
Where Winicjusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Winicjusz reaches Polish from Latin, from the Roman family name Vinicius. Linguists usually trace that name to vinum, the Latin word for wine, which gives the short meaning recorded here: related to wine. A Roman carried it long before any Pole did.
Polish readers know one Winicjusz above the rest. In Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis, published in 1896, Marek Winicjusz is the young officer who falls for the Christian girl Ligia. The novel travelled the world, brought its author lasting fame, and lodged the name in Polish literary memory.
Today it is rare. Read out from a class register, Winicjusz still sounds Roman and formal, older than the boy who answers to it. The link to wine survives in the root, vinum turned into a first name.
When Winicjusz celebrates name day
Winicjusz appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 April.
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 Winicjusz
1 in 70683 men in Poland is named Winicjusz. 302 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1739 among male names.
Winicjusz's popularity over time
4 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1156 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2022.
Where Winicjusz is most popular
Winicjusz is most popular in Lubusz, 1143% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+578%).
Winicjusz as a middle name
Winicjusz is a first name for 302 men in Poland and a middle name for another 312, a 49/51 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 397th, between Medard (312) and Angelo (310).
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#395 Gniewko312
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#396 Medard312
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#397 Winicjusz312
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#398 Angelo310
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#399 Dymitr310