Akaki
From Greek, meaning "innocent". Fewer than 400 men in Poland carry it and none were given it last year, so meeting one stays memorable.
Akaki Pronunciation
Akaki is pronounced ah-KAH-kee (/aˈkaki/).
What Akaki means
Where Akaki comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Akaki traces back to the Greek word akakos, meaning free of malice or guile. Early Christians took it up as Akakios, a name carried by several saints of the eastern church. The English gloss is plain. It means innocent.
The name traveled far from Greece. Georgia claims one of its best-loved bearers in Akaki Tsereteli, the nineteenth-century poet whose verses many Georgians still sing. Russian readers know a different Akaki: Akaky Akakievich, the meek clerk of Gogol's story "The Overcoat," a man whose whole world shrinks to a single garment. The name he wears fits his gentleness.
In Poland the form stays rare, and a clerk at the urząd might pause over it before writing it down. Its meaning, niewinny, was never a verdict on any one person. It described the root, the Greek sense of someone who holds no evil.
How many people are named Akaki
1 in 56322 men in Poland is named Akaki. 379 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1526 among male names.