Artsem
A Slavic name meaning "safe, healthy". It stays rare in Poland: fewer than 800 men carry it, and most people here have never met one.
Artsem Pronunciation
Artsem is pronounced AHRT-sem (/ˈartsɛm/).
What Artsem means
Where Artsem comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Artsem is a Slavic name, the Belarusian shape of one shared across the eastern Slavic world.
The meaning given to it is plain and warm: safe and healthy. In Polish that comes out as bezpieczny and zdrowy, two words a parent might wish over any child. Whether safety was the first thing the name meant or a sense attached to it later, it has settled there and stayed.
Say it once. Artsem. The name stays Slavic through and through, and no diminutive softens it in the record. A boy named this way answers to the full form at the urząd and in the class register alike.
For a Polish family the choice reaches east, toward Belarusian and Ukrainian cousins who carry Artem and Artsem. The meaning holds across them: safe, healthy.
How many people are named Artsem
1 in 27867 men in Poland is named Artsem. 766 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1072 among male names.