Alik
A rare name today: only around 140 Polish men carry it, and hardly any newborns get it now. A Russian form of Aleksander, Hebrew at its root, with the sense "defender of men".
Alik Pronunciation
Alik is pronounced AH-leek (/ˈalik/).
What Alik means
Where Alik comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alik is small and portable. In Russian it works as an affectionate short form, the name a friend or grandmother reaches for, and behind it stands Aleksander, whose sense is "defender of men." The root recorded here is Hebrew, so that meaning is best told as a later association, one that reached Alik through the fuller Aleksander rather than from any first source.
The name rarely stands alone.
Around it gather Aleks and Olek, both leaning on the same Aleksander. For a daughter there is Aleksandra. On a Polish class register Alik reads as the informal entry, the version used aloud while the paperwork keeps Aleksander. Follow it back and you reach a Hebrew root in a Russian coat, a short form still answering to "defender of men."
How many people are named Alik
1 in 149274 men in Poland is named Alik. 143 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2729 among male names.
Alik as a middle name
Alik is a first name for 143 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5180th, between Alihan (4) and Aliou (4).
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#5178 Alian4
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#5179 Alihan4
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#5180 Alik4
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#5181 Aliou4
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#5182 Alioune4