Anatoliy
From the Greek for "sunrise", it came to Poland through Russian and Ukrainian use. Only about a thousand men here carry it and hardly anyone is given it now, so meeting one stays memorable.
Anatoliy Pronunciation
Anatoliy is pronounced ah-nah-TOL-yih (/anaˈtɔljɨ/).
What Anatoliy means
Where Anatoliy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anatoliy comes from the Greek anatolē, a word for sunrise and for the east, the quarter where the sun climbs. From that same root the Greeks named Anatolia, their term for the lands lying toward the dawn. The short meaning on a Polish name card, sunrise, wschód słońca, sits right next to the origin here, rather than being bolted on centuries later.
The name settled deepest in Russian and Ukrainian usage. It belongs to the chess champion Anatoly Karpov and to the Ukrainian tenor Anatoliy Solovyanenko, whose voice filled Soviet opera houses for decades. In an official register at the urząd, the East Slavic spelling Anatoliy marks the bearer as much as any surname does.
The meaning is plain. A boy named Anatoliy holds the old word for sunrise, the same anatolē that named a continent's edge.
How many people are named Anatoliy
1 in 20466 men in Poland is named Anatoliy. 1,045 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #940 among male names.