Zacheusz
Rare in Poland today: most people here have never met a Zacheusz, and it goes to fewer boys now than the average name. It's Hebrew at root, with the sense of "pure".
Zacheusz Pronunciation
Zacheusz is pronounced zah-KHE-oosh (/zaˈxɛuʂ/).
What Zacheusz means
Where Zacheusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zacheusz comes from Hebrew. The root behind it, Zakkai, means pure or innocent, and that sense of "pure" is the meaning Polish dictionaries still attach to the name.
Its most famous bearer stands in the Gospel of Luke. Zacchaeus was a tax collector in Jericho, short of stature, who climbed a sycamore to see Jesus pass (Luke 19). The Polish form of his name is Zacheusz. For centuries that story kept the name in circulation, a rare choice but never a forgotten one.
The meaning outran the etymology. Zakkai points to clean hands and a clear record, so "pure" reads less as description than as a hope folded into three syllables. On a Polish class register, Zacheusz sits apart from the Jakubs and Szymons around it. It is long, biblical, unmistakable.
Say it once and it stays. The name has no diminutive in common use, no softened nickname to hide behind. What you get is the full form, Zacheusz, and the old Hebrew word for pure underneath it.
When Zacheusz celebrates name day
Zacheusz appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 10 July.
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 Zacheusz
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Zacheusz. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6411 among male names.
Zacheusz's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Zacheusz as a middle name
Zacheusz is a first name for 38 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1837th, between Xuân (23) and Abdel (22).
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#1835 Wade23
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#1836 Xuân23
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#1837 Zacheusz23
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#1838 Abdel22
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#1839 Adewale22