Antek
A Slavic form of Antonii, carrying the sense "priceless, praiseworthy". Antek stays rare: most Poles have never met one, and the name goes only to boys.
Antek Pronunciation
Antek is pronounced AHN-tek (/ˈantɛk/).
What Antek means
Where Antek comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Antek is the everyday Polish form of Antoni, the name a boy answers to in the schoolyard while the longer version waits on his birth certificate. Its roots reach into the Slavic naming tradition, and the sense that gathered around it is generous: priceless, praiseworthy, held dear. That reading settled on the name later, well after its oldest layer took shape.
The fuller form, Antoni, does the formal work. On a class register a teacher reads out Antoni, and the boy two rows back answers to Antek all the same. The feminine line runs through Antonina, so the name passes between a brother and a sister without changing its meaning.
Antoni keeps his imieniny on 13 June, the feast of Anthony of Padua, and many Polish families still mark the day. The diminutive fits a child. The meaning that stays with it is plain: priceless, worthy of praise.
How many people are named Antek
1 in 117287 men in Poland is named Antek. 182 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2356 among male names.
Antek's popularity over time
7 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #790 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2014.
Where parents choose Antek
Antek is most popular in Pomeranian, 172% above the national average (10 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+134%) and Lower Silesian (+129%). It is least common in Greater Poland and Subcarpathian, 63% and 34% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian
+172%1 in 14,732 babies
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Lublin
+134%1 in 17,113 babies
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Lower Silesian
+129%1 in 17,459 babies
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Greater Poland
−63%1 in 107,622 babies
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Subcarpathian
−34%1 in 60,283 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−27%1 in 54,690 babies
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Pomeranian+172% 10 born1 in 14,732 babies+172%
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Lublin+134% 6 born1 in 17,113 babies+134%
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Lower Silesian+129% 9 born1 in 17,459 babies+129%
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West Pomeranian+90% 4 born1 in 21,106 babies+90%
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Lesser Poland+23% 7 born1 in 32,417 babies+23%
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Silesian−12% 5 born1 in 45,517 babies−12%
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Masovian−21% 7 born1 in 50,609 babies−21%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−27% 2 born1 in 54,690 babies−27%
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Subcarpathian−34% 2 born1 in 60,283 babies−34%
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Greater Poland−63% 2 born1 in 107,622 babies−63%
Antek as a middle name
Antek is a first name for 182 men in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1968th, between Anilkumar (20) and Antonie (20).
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#1966 Anicet20
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#1967 Anilkumar20
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#1968 Antek20
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#1969 Antonie20
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#1970 Arnaldo20