Artyom

Artyom is a Russian name, and in Poland it arrives as a guest with a Cyrillic past. The short meaning points to Artemis, goddess of wild places and the hunt, and the older Greek form Artemios sits behind it. That older word also touched the idea of being safe and sound, which is how the Polish gloss reads: zdrowy, nieskazitelny, healthy and unblemished.

The sense of health was attached later. It grew from the Greek adjective for whole and unharmed, and it settled onto the name as an association more than a literal origin.

Artyom stands mostly on its own. It has no diminutive train in the grounding here, no cross-gender twin. Short.

Fill out a form at the urząd as an Artyom and the name keeps its foreign shape, spelled the way it sounds. The name-day question follows. The answer runs back to Artemios, the saint honoured under that Greek name in the Eastern calendar.