Given name & surname
Wawrzyniec
“laurel”
Wawrzyniec is used as a given name and a surname. Wawrzyniec is connected with Laurence.
Original LatinLaurentius
Meaning & origin
What it means
Wawrzyniec goes back to Czech Vavřinec, meaning “laurel.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Polish use, Wawrzyniec is used as a form of Laurence.
The story
Wawrzyniec is a form of Laurence. The history of Laurence gives this family its wider story. Laurence was in use during the Middle Ages.
Explained through its name family
Wawrzyniec’s family of names
In Polish usage, Wawrzyniec has a diminutive in Wawrzek. Wawrzyniec shares a linguistic root with Laurence. In Polish usage, Wawrzyniec has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Lorenzo.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Wawrzyniec has relatives in 17 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Wawrzyniec comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Wawrzyniec
- Wawrzyniec GoślickiPolish bishop1530–1607
- Wawrzyniec ŻuławskiAlpinist, composer, writer (1916-1957)
- Wawrzyniec GembickiRoman Catholic prelate1559–1624
- Wawrzyniec ŻmurkoPolish mathematician (1824-1889)
- Wawrzyniec TeisseyrePolish geologist (1860-1939)
- Wawrzyniec CylPolish footballer (1900-1974)
- Lawrence Bai XiaomanChinse layman, martyred, saint (1821–1856)
- Wawrzyniec StalińskiPolish association football player (1899-1985)
- Wawrzyniec DayczakPolish architect1882–1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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