Artak
At root it means truth, and in Polish it carries the sense of upright and just. It stays rare here: around 156 men hold it, and most Poles have never met one.
Artak Pronunciation
Artak is pronounced AHR-tahk (/ˈartak/).
What Artak means
Where Artak comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Artak is an Armenian name, and its roots run east of the Slavic world. The core is the Old Persian arta, meaning truth, an element that also sits behind the sense recorded here: prawy, sprawiedliwy, someone who holds to what is right. The link is not a folk guess. It is the documented etymology.
The men who carry it are real and findable. Artak Davtyan, born in 1970, serves as a general in the Armenian armed forces. Others answer to it on football pitches and in diplomatic posts. The name lives well beyond Armenia now.
In Poland it stays rare and clearly foreign. On a class register it would land near Artur and Bartek, four letters, read correctly on the first try. No imieniny is fixed to it in the Polish calendar, so a bearer would choose a date or borrow one from a nearby saint. What does not shift is the old root underneath the four letters: arta, truth.
How many people are named Artak
1 in 136835 men in Poland is named Artak. 156 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2580 among male names.
Artak as a middle name
Artak is a first name for 156 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4144th, between Arsenio (6) and Asghar (6).
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#4142 Arnulfo6
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#4143 Arsenio6
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#4144 Artak6
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#4145 Asghar6
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#4146 Ash6