Arseni
From Greek, where it means "virile, masculine", and the name holds to that in Poland: all of the roughly 565 people who carry it are men. Rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Arseni Pronunciation
Arseni is pronounced ahr-SE-nyee (/arˈsɛɲi/).
What Arseni means
Where Arseni comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arseni traces back to the Greek arsen, a plain word for what is male. From it the Greeks built the name Arsenios, and the Polish spelling Arseni keeps that root near the surface. The sense given to it, virile and masculine, in Polish męski, rests directly on the etymology rather than being fixed to the name later.
Its warmth comes largely from Russia, where the form Arseny has long been at home. The poet Arseny Tarkovsky, born in 1907, carried it through a century of Russian verse, and readers still know the name from his lines. That is one reason a Greek word for maleness now sounds, to many ears, Russian.
Picture the name read from a class register on an imieniny morning, one Arseni answering among the Polish forms around him. No diminutive softens it. The name arrives as Arseni and stays that way. What it offers is the old Greek arsen, and the meaning męski, masculine.
How many people are named Arseni
1 in 37781 men in Poland is named Arseni. 565 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1248 among male names.
Arseni's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1463 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024. Still the #1248 name among living men, even as it slips to #1463 among newborns.
Arseni as a middle name
Arseni is a first name for 565 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6000th, between Arnulf (3) and Arsène (3).
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