Anatolii
Greek at root, from a word for sunrise and the east, carried into Poland through Ukrainian and Russian. Meeting one is memorable: around 17,000 men here hold it, and the few boys given it each year are thinning out.
Anatolii Pronunciation
Anatolii is pronounced ah-nah-TOL-yee (/anaˈtɔlji/).
What Anatolii means
Where Anatolii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anatolii grows from the Greek word anatolē, which named the sunrise and the east. The same root gave Europe the name Anatolia, the peninsula where the sun clears the horizon first over the Aegean. So the meaning is plain and old: the quarter of the sky where morning begins.
Among Ukrainians and Russians the name settled early, carried by Christian saints named Anatolius and kept in parish calendars. In Polish it softens to Anatol. A boy who gets that name is soon Tolek to everyone at school.
On a class register the formal Anatolii can sit a little stiffly above the signature Tolek scrawled below. Both are the same boy, and both point back to the same Greek word. Whatever form he answers to, the root still says sunrise, the east.
How many people are named Anatolii
1 in 1276 men in Poland is named Anatolii. 16,731 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #295 among male names.
Anatolii's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1448 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020. Still the #295 name among living men, even as it slips to #1448 among newborns.
Anatolii as a middle name
Anatolii is a first name for 16,731 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4570th, between Anamul (5) and Andi (5).
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#4568 Amil5
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#4569 Anamul5
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#4570 Anatolii5
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#4571 Andi5
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#4572 Apostolis5