Nitin
Just 61 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years, so most Poles have never met one. The name means "master of the right path".
Nitin Pronunciation
Nitin is pronounced NYEE-teen (/ˈɲitin/).
What Nitin means
Where Nitin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nitin does not fit the tidy family trees of European names. Reference books file its origin under a plain label: other. There is no patron saint behind it and no Latin root to follow backward. It brings no diminutives, no variants, no cross-gender pair. It stands alone.
The meaning lives in the translation given for it: master of the right path, in Polish mistrz właściwej ścieżki. That is a claim about direction, not about looks or birth. It points somewhere. The word master here reads as guide, the one who keeps to the path and can show it to others.
A child called Nitin will not find the name on the Polish calendar of imieniny. There is no name-day to mark. In a class register he sits among the Anteks and Kubas, plainly foreign and easy to spell wrong. The name still says what it says: master of the right path.
How many people are named Nitin
1 in 349938 men in Poland is named Nitin. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4719 among male names.
Nitin as a middle name
Nitin is a first name for 61 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2430th, between Nilesh (15) and Norwid (15).
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#2428 Nickolas15
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#2429 Nilesh15
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#2430 Nitin15
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#2431 Norwid15
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#2432 Oluwatobi15