Kadek
A Balinese name given to a second-born child. Fewer than most Poles will ever meet carry it here, and it splits almost evenly between women and men.
Kadek Pronunciation
Kadek is pronounced KAH-dek (/ˈkadɛk/).
What Kadek means
Where Kadek comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kadek comes from Bali, where a child's place in the family becomes the name itself. It marks the second-born. The Balinese order runs Wayan for the first child, Kadek for the second, Nyoman for the third, and the sequence begins again after the fourth. For a Polish register, the origin sits under "other," well outside Slavic or Latin roots.
The short meaning stays close to that source. Kadek means second-born child, drugie dziecko in Polish, a younger sibling by position rather than by any wish laid onto it. The name records a fact of household arithmetic. Nothing decorative attaches to it.
In a Kraków class register the name would look unusual, and a teacher might pause over it. That pause is the whole story of a name travelling. It arrived through Balinese custom, not through any Polish saint or name-day. A child called Kadek in Poland carries a word that, back home, simply says: the second one.
How many people are named Kadek
1 in 402758 men in Poland is named Kadek. 102 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3402 among male names.
Kadek as a middle name
Kadek is a first name for 102 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1140th, between Gemma (37) and Karyna (37).
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#1138 Estella37
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#1139 Gemma37
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#1140 Kadek37
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#1141 Karyna37
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#1142 Koralia37