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Names of Poland

9,879,256 birth registrations across 4,624 recorded names, 2000 to 2025.

The most common name in each region

Poland publishes, year by year, every boy's and girl's name given 2 times or more in each of its 16 regions – the same list as for the country and cut off in the same place, which in the largest reaches a rank of 339. First place is below; the rest are on the pages of the names themselves. What was given fewer than 2 times was never published, and the threshold applies to each list separately, so these do not add up to the country and cannot be turned into a share of a region's births.

Region BoysThat year GirlsThat year
Dolnośląskie Nikodem 415 Zuzanna 311
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Nikodem 307 Laura 225
Lubelskie Nikodem 356 Zuzanna 210
Lubuskie Leon & Nikodem 128 Zofia & Zuzanna 98
Łódzkie Nikodem 377 Laura 283
Małopolskie Antoni 603 Maja 465
Mazowieckie Jan 947 Zofia 766
Opolskie Leon 130 Zofia 90
Podkarpackie Nikodem 378 Zuzanna 261
Podlaskie Nikodem 205 Laura 146
Pomorskie Jan 362 Zofia 301
Śląskie Leon 541 Maja 416
Świętokrzyskie Nikodem 184 Laura 122
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Nikodem 227 Zofia 184
Wielkopolskie Leon 535 Zofia 487
Zachodniopomorskie Leon 263 Zofia 175

2025. The ranking has been published for 7 years, 2019 to 2025, and each of them ranks the 16 regions separately. Counting every one of those lists: for boys, Antoni has come first 42 times, Nikodem has come first 37 times, Jan has come first 12 times; for girls, Zuzanna has come first 39 times, Zofia has come first 31 times, Hanna has come first 16 times. Places are as published, which means they are shared: where two names tie the source prints both, and so does this.

Top of 2025

Girls

#NameThat year
1Zofia4,415
2Zuzanna3,881
3Maja3,873
4Laura3,821
5Hanna3,452
6Julia3,207
7Oliwia3,067
8Pola2,812
9Alicja2,788
10Emilia2,556

Boys

#NameThat year
1Nikodem5,772
2Antoni5,253
3Leon5,079
4Jan5,054
5Aleksander4,687
6Franciszek4,548
7Ignacy4,222
8Stanisław3,554
9Jakub3,386
10Mikołaj3,215

Common here, rare in America

Names Poland gives often that the US records barely hold.

Name In Poland In the US
Jagoda 34,271 not recorded
Ksawery 22,601 not recorded
Przemysław 20,744 not recorded
Błażej 17,669 not recorded
Cezary 16,252 not recorded
Radosław 15,599 not recorded
Tobiasz 10,869 not recorded
Gracjan 10,668 not recorded
Liwia 10,414 not recorded
Natasza 7,575 not recorded
Mieszko 6,333 not recorded
Seweryn 6,057 not recorded
Gaja 5,838 not recorded
Remigiusz 5,764 not recorded
Brajan 5,715 not recorded

US figures are Social Security births since 1880; the Poland figures cover 2000 onwards. The two are not the same measure and the columns are for comparison of scale, not subtraction.

Most given since 2000

Girls

#NameBirth registrations
1Julia275,981
2Zuzanna197,195
3Wiktoria183,660
4Maja171,929
5Aleksandra157,502
6Natalia157,141
7Oliwia152,488
8Lena129,427
9Zofia128,196
10Amelia124,438
11Hanna113,527
12Alicja104,221
13Emilia90,798
14Weronika89,799
15Maria89,482
16Anna88,287
17Martyna88,092
18Karolina80,363
19Nikola74,002
20Gabriela73,855

Boys

#NameBirth registrations
1Jakub297,378
2Kacper201,609
3Szymon170,511
4Mateusz148,877
5Filip148,105
6Michał144,478
7Jan140,094
8Antoni129,571
9Mikołaj116,736
10Aleksander113,138
11Bartosz108,359
12Adam107,588
13Piotr104,086
14Dawid102,700
15Wojciech102,383
16Franciszek98,862
17Wiktor94,712
18Igor78,641
19Maciej77,648
20Marcel77,042

Source: MSWiA, Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (rejestr PESEL). The first forename of every child in the PESEL register with that year of birth. It is close to a count of births but is not one: in every year from 2000 it stands above the number of children born to residents of Poland, by between two and eleven per cent, so the register reaches children the birth statistic does not. The ministry does not say which, and this site does not guess. Second forenames are published separately and are not counted here, so each child appears once. Up to 2012 a name needed five children to be listed and from 2013 only two, so the number of names jumps between those two years without anything having happened.