Uncommon Polish Boy Names
Polish formal names and familiar short forms offer quite different sounds and lengths. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 155#1,269 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1902. | 47#2,731 | Down 675 rank positions in five years | 1954 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1910. | 219#1,023 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Polish-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1894. | 73#2,039 | Up 1,620 rank positions in five years | 1919 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1970. | 25#4,192 | Up 1,934 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1918. | 126#1,425 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Polish as Michał; in U.S. records from 1911. | 15#6,046 | Down 656 rank positions in five years | 1961 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1956. | 50#2,629 | Down 501 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1981. | 36#3,270 | Down 599 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1972. | 41#3,015 | Down 863 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1953. | 42#2,951 | Down 756 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 5#13,138 | new | 1959 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1976. | 43#2,934 | Down 749 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Polish as Józef; in U.S. records from 1914. | 17#5,491 | Down 874 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1976. | 6#11,070 | Down 5,284 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1989. | —Unranked | — | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1973. | —Unranked | — | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 2001. | 31#3,626 | Up 1,339 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1915. | 16#5,760 | Down 597 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1959. | 10#7,929 | Down 2,581 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Polish as Bronisław; in U.S. records from 1908. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1972. | —Unranked | — | 1989 | ||
Recorded in Polish as Władysław; in U.S. records from 1911. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Polish as Jaś; in U.S. records from 1884. | —Unranked | — | 2002 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.