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Wojciech

Boys' name

Warrior, soldier + solace, comfort, joy

Wojciech has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1985. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Wojciech, 2018

1 in 703,000

Wojciech over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wojciech: meaning, origin, and history

Warrior, soldier + solace, comfort, joy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wojciech means

Wojciech means “warrior, soldier + solace, comfort, joy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Wojciech is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈvɔj.t͡ɕɛx/ for Wojciech.

Origin, language, and formation

Wojciech comes through Proto-Slavic *Vojьtěxъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vojtěch and Vojtech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Wojciech is pronounced /ˈvɔj.t͡ɕɛx/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 boys were recorded with the name Wojciech between 1985 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,505 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Wojciech?

Wojciech had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wojciech sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wojciech. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wojciechs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wojciech was born before 1997 — so the typical Wojciech is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
59
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Wojciech rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (8)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,505
1985

Where Wojciech is used

Across 1910–2025, Wojciech was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Wojciech has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wojciech around the world

Where Wojciech ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2020
    #536
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2019
    #418
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2007–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    1931–2019
    #5,660
    in 2019
  • Norway
    1880–2022
    #457
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1963–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Wojciech by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,505
1985
Peak year
2007
8 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wojciech

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Wojciech

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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