Apolinary
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Apollinaire
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/apolinaɾj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Apolinary is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 120K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 358Kas Аполінарій
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 7.9Mas Аполинарий
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Apolinary itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)
318 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Аполинарий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Аполінарій in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Apollinaire
Sources 1
- Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Apolinary counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 318 | 1 in 120K | 337 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 358K | — | Аполінарій | 7 |
| RU Russia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 8M | — | Аполинарий | 43 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 7.9M | — | Аполинарий | 7 |
| IS Iceland | — | — | listed | — | — |
318 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); the is-skra-nofn register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Apollinaris of Ravennab. 100TRnot in their usual nameSyrian bishop and saint
- Apolinary Kurowskib. 1818PLPolish politician, colonel of the insurgent forces in the January Uprising
- Apolinary Jaworskib. 1825UAPolish member of Austrian empire council
- Apolinary Zagórskib. 1830PLRussian writer (1830-1858)
- Apolinary Wnukowskib. 1848UAformer Archbishop of Mohilev
- Apolinary Garlickib. 1872UAPolish politician
- Apolinary Szelutob. 1884PLPolish composer (1884–1966)
- Apolinary Głowińskib. 1884PLPolish sculptor, painter
- Apolinary Czepelewskib. 1909PLPolish architect
- Apolinary ŁabędaPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 337 | #872 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 318 | #941 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2024 | 2 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2025 | — | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2020 | — | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2019 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Apolinary mean, and where does it come from?
- Apollinaire Recorded by Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24).
- How do you pronounce Apolinary?
- A machine transcription gives /apolinaɾj/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Apolinary a male or female name?
- Apolinary is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Apolinary?
- In the etymology graph, Apolinar and Apollinaris are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Apolinary have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 318 people named Apolinary, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Apolinary most common?
- Apolinary is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 120 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Apolinary?
- In Poland, the national register counted 318 people named Apolinary in 2026, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Apolinary?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apolinaryThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Apolinary”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.