Given name
Przemysł
“ingenuity, cleverness”
Przemysł is a masculine given name. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Przemysł goes back to a word meaning “ingenuity, cleverness.”
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Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Polish.
The story
The name’s historical associations include two Polish kings of the Middle Ages, Przemysł I.
Przemysł’s family of names
Przemysł has an affectionate form in Myslik. Przemysł shares a linguistic root with Premysl. In Polish usage, Przemysł has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Přemysl.
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Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Przemysł
- Przemysł IIKing of Poland, Duke of Greater Poland (1257-1296)
- Przemysł I of Greater PolandDuke of Greater Poland1220–1257
- Przemysł of Inowrocław(1277-1339)
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