Anatoli
From the Greek for "sunrise". Around 1,800 Polish men carry it today, none of them young: no boys were given the name last year, and most Poles have never met an Anatoli.
Anatoli Pronunciation
Anatoli is pronounced ah-nah-TO-lee (/anaˈtɔli/).
What Anatoli means
Where Anatoli comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anatoli comes from Greek. The source word is anatolē, the rising of the sun, the point on the horizon where light first shows. The same root named Anatolia, the land east of the Aegean. So the name means sunrise, and it has meant that for a very long time.
In Russian and Ukrainian usage the name settled in for good, written Anatoliy or Anatoli. Anatoly Karpov, the chess world champion, carried it across the board through the 1970s and after. The Greek sunrise sat easily in Cyrillic. No Slavic softening was needed to make it belong.
On a Polish class register the name stands out a little among the Kacpers and Antonis, though it reads without any trouble. Trace it back to its Greek root and you arrive at the east, the sunrise, wschód słońca.
How many people are named Anatoli
1 in 11557 men in Poland is named Anatoli. 1,847 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #729 among male names.
Anatoli as a middle name
Anatoli is a first name for 1,847 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2887th, between Amor (11) and Anatolij (11).
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2885
11Alirio
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2886
11Amor
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288711Anatoli
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2888
11Anatolij
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2889
11Andras