Karthik
Just 74 men in Poland carry it, and most people here have never met one. The name points to the Pleiades star cluster: "of the krittikas."
Karthik Pronunciation
What Karthik means
Where Karthik comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Karthik comes from the Sanskrit Kārttikeya, a name of the Hindu god of war. The word points to the Krittikas, the six star-nurses of the Pleiades who reared the infant god. The plain meaning of Karthik is "of the Krittikas," the child the stars raised.
That god answers to many names across southern India, Murugan and Skanda among them. He is honoured as a warrior. He commands the armies of the gods. Karthik holds that warlike sense at one step's remove, which is why Polish name-lists gloss it as bóg wojny, god of war.
On a Polish class register the name marks a family with roots far from the Vistula. The same root gives Kārttika, a month in the Hindu lunar calendar named for the god.
How many people are named Karthik
1 in 288462 men in Poland is named Karthik. 74 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4166 among male names.
Karthik as a middle name
Karthik is a first name for 74 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3325th, between Kamrul (9) and Kenzo (9).
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#3323 Kalu9
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#3324 Kamrul9
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#3325 Karthik9
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#3326 Kenzo9
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#3327 Kian9