Arun
The name means "dawn". In Poland it stays rare and only male: around 240 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Arun Pronunciation
Arun is pronounced AH-roon (/ˈarun/).
What Arun means
Where Arun comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arun comes from Sanskrit, where the word अरुण names the reddish light that colors the sky before sunrise. On Polish name lists the sense given is plain: dawn, in Polish świt.
In Hindu tradition Aruna personifies that early glow. He is the charioteer of Surya, the sun god, and he guides the horses that draw the morning up over the horizon. In myth he is also called the elder brother of Garuda, the great eagle. The name spread widely across India, where Arun is a common given name for boys. One documented bearer is the Indian politician Arun Jaitley, who lived from 1952 to 2019.
On a Polish class register the name reads differently from its neighbors. Its origin lies in Sanskrit rather than Latin or Slavic roots. The link to dawn is literal here, present in the word itself. Arun means świt.
How many people are named Arun
1 in 88942 men in Poland is named Arun. 240 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2001 among male names.
Arun as a middle name
Arun is a first name for 240 men in Poland and a middle name for another 35, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1378th, between Arne (35) and Berthold (35).
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#1376 Aram35
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#1377 Arne35
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#1378 Arun35
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#1379 Berthold35
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#1380 Blake35