I Kadek
The name marks a second-born child, the younger sibling. In Poland it barely registers: around 80 men carry it, and records show no boys given it since 2000.
I Kadek Pronunciation
I Kadek is pronounced EE-KAH-dek (/i ˈkadɛk/).
What I Kadek means
Where I Kadek comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name I Kadek reaches Polish records marked as Slavic in origin. Behind it sits a plain sense: the second-born child, the younger sibling. A name drawn from birth order says something about a child before that child has done a thing.
No diminutive travels with it. No cross-gender variant answers to it either. It arrives without the familiar Polish softenings, no -ek and no -uś to shrink it down. On a school class register it would stand apart from the Kasias and Piotreks listed around it.
Poland keeps no name-day for it, so an imieniny would pass unmarked. The Polish meaning stays open, since no Polish source pins it down. What holds is the given sense, the second-born child.
How many people are named I Kadek
1 in 266827 men in Poland is named I Kadek. 80 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3970 among male names.