Itai
A Hebrew name meaning "with me". Only about 145 men in Poland carry it, and none show up among newborns this century, so most Poles have never met one.
Itai Pronunciation
Itai is pronounced ee-TAH-ee (/iˈtai/).
What Itai means
Where Itai comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Itai comes from Hebrew, where it reads as "with me." The name belongs to the Jewish tradition. Many readers hear in it the fuller idea that God is with me, a small confession folded into one word.
The oldest bearer sits in the Book of Samuel. Ittai the Gittite was a foreign soldier who joined King David, and he refused to leave when Absalom's revolt drove the king from Jerusalem. David told him to turn back. Ittai answered that he would follow the king anywhere, in death or in life. That loyalty is one reason the name survived long enough to reach a Polish register.
In Polish the sense runs toward zgodny, jednomyślny, someone in agreement, of one mind with another. The link is easy to trace. To stand "with me" is to stand of one accord.
Itai stays short and unbending. It takes no diminutive and no feminine form. A child named Itai on a class list keeps the Hebrew word plain: with me.
How many people are named Itai
1 in 147215 men in Poland is named Itai. 145 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2697 among male names.
Itai as a middle name
Itai is a first name for 145 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4778th, between Iskender (5) and Itzchak (5).
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#4776 Ishaq5
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#4777 Iskender5
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#4778 Itai5
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#4779 Itzchak5
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#4780 Izasław5