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Arkadiusz

A man's name you've almost certainly met: around 130,000 Poles carry it, yet it's mostly a name of grown men now, given to just over 100 newborn boys last year. From Greek, it marks someone from Arcadia.

Arkadiusz Pronunciation

Arkadiusz is pronounced ahr-KAHD-yoosh (/arˈkadjuʂ/).

Related names
Arkadzi Arek
Alive in 2025
132,812
Newborns 2025
104
National rank
#107
Next name day
12 January
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What Arkadiusz means

Where Arkadiusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Arkadiusz comes from Greek, from Arkadia, a mountainous region in the middle of the Peloponnese. The name means, quite plainly, someone from Arcadia. Ancient poets reshaped that rough upland into a pastoral ideal, a country of shepherds and easy song, and a trace of that green sense followed the name north into Poland.

For daily use, the long form gives way. Friends and family reach for Arek, the diminutive most Poles hear first. Arkady stays closer to the old root. On a class register the full Arkadiusz stands out, then shrinks to Arek by the second break.

Polish calendars mark his imieniny on the twelfth of January. The full name still means what it always did: a man from Arcadia.

When Arkadiusz celebrates name day

Arkadiusz appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 12 January.

Next name day
12 January
Tuesday in 2027
Next one in 79 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Arkadiusz

1 in 161 men in Poland is named Arkadiusz. 132,812 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #107 among male names.

People with the name Arkadiusz 2019 → 2025
132,812 −2,473 since 2019
2020 135,172 −113
2021 134,801 −371
2022 134,303 −498
2023 133,846 −457
2024 133,350 −496
2025 132,812 −538

Arkadiusz's popularity over time

104 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #246 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #107 name among living men, even as it slips to #246 among newborns.

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104 newborns with the name Arkadiusz in 2025
national rank #246 that year

Where parents choose Arkadiusz

Arkadiusz is most popular in Lesser Poland, 43% above the national average (163 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+37%) and Podlaskie (+27%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Masovian, 50% and 24% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lesser Poland
    +43%
    1 in 1,392 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    +37%
    1 in 1,453 babies
  • Podlaskie
    +27%
    1 in 1,566 babies
Chosen least
  • Holy Cross
    −50%
    1 in 3,960 babies
  • Masovian
    −24%
    1 in 2,605 babies
  • Łódź
    −23%
    1 in 2,586 babies

Arkadiusz as a middle name

Arkadiusz is a first name for 132,812 men in Poland and a middle name for another 39,185, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 66th, between Kacper (39,996) and Eugeniusz (39,139).

As a first name
132,812
As a middle name
39,185
first name 77% middle name 23%
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