Arkady
Fewer than 90 men in Poland carry it, and no boys were named it last year: most Poles have never met one. It reads as the Russian counterpart to Arkadiusz, from the Greek for "from Arcadia".
Arkady Pronunciation
Arkady is pronounced ahr-KAH-dih (/arˈkadɨ/).
What Arkady means
Where Arkady comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arkady begins in Greek, in the name Arkadia, a mountainous region of the Peloponnese. Ancient poets remade that real place into a shepherds' idyll, and the name has meant "from Arcadia" ever since, pochodzący z Arkadii in Polish.
In Russian hands the name grew common and warm. Turgenev gave it to Arkady Kirsanov, the young idealist of Fathers and Sons (1862). Many readers first met the name in that book. It settled easily into Polish soil as well.
Poland knows it mostly as Arkadiusz, with Arek as the everyday short form. A boy signs Arek on the school register and stretches to Arkadiusz on a form at the urząd. Saint Arkadiusz supplies the name-day. The meaning has not moved: from Arcadia.
When Arkady celebrates name day
Arkady appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 12 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Arkady
1 in 245358 men in Poland is named Arkady. 87 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3767 among male names.
Arkady as a middle name
Arkady is a first name for 87 men in Poland and a middle name for another 76, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 814th, between Sven (77) and Benedikt (76).
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#812 Jeffrey77
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#813 Sven77
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#814 Arkady76
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#815 Benedikt76
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#816 Bernardo76