# Wojciech (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wojciech/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 59 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 59 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 596, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | 6,511 |
| 1990 | 6 | 8,086 |
| 1991 | 6 | 8,207 |
| 1994 | 5 | 10,200 |
| 1996 | 5 | 10,485 |
| 1997 | 7 | 8,082 |
| 2005 | 5 | 13,286 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,750 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,483 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,994 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 47 | 681 |
| 2012 | 39 | 805 |
| 2013 | 43 | 751 |
| 2014 | 41 | 765 |
| 2015 | 37 | 833 |
| 2016 | 55 | 641 |
| 2017 | 44 | 771 |
| 2018 | 44 | 749 |
| 2019 | 36 | 844 |
| 2020 | 27 | 1,019 |
| 2021 | 25 | 1,117 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,609 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Wojciech

- Wojciech Klata, actor
- Wojciech Ruszkowski, actor (1897-1976)
- Wojciech Radziwiłł, bishop (1476-1519)
- Stanisław Wielgus, Bishop of Płock, Archbishop of Warsaw, Polish Communist Secret Police informer
- Paul Juda, American gymnast

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.