Aleh
A Slavic name meaning "holy". Around 4,000 Polish men carry it, but most people here have never met one, and it's slipping further out of use with hardly a boy given it now.
Aleh Pronunciation
Aleh is pronounced AH-lekh (/ˈalɛx/).
What Aleh means
Where Aleh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aleh comes from Slavic roots, and the meaning recorded for it is holy, święty in Polish. In the older Slavic vocabulary, the word for what is holy marked something set apart, kept back from common use. The name holds that idea in a single small shape and explains none of it.
Short and firm, it gives little away.
A boy called Aleh might answer to it at an imieniny, or hear it read from a class register, where it sits among longer, more familiar Polish names. The sense of holiness is not loud in it. It rests in the meaning rather than the sound, so a listener has to know the word behind the name to hear święty inside Aleh.
That is what the name hands on: a Slavic origin and a single plain gloss, holy.
How many people are named Aleh
1 in 5213 men in Poland is named Aleh. 4,095 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #529 among male names.