Rati
A Slavic name for pleasure or delight. Fewer than 150 people in Poland carry it, most of them men, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Rati Pronunciation
Rati is pronounced RAH-tee (/ˈrati/).
What Rati means
Where Rati comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The short meaning given for Rati is pleasure, delight, and in Polish radość. That sense points toward the old Slavic root rad-, the root behind Polish radość and behind names like Radosław. To read Rati against that root is to place it among words for gladness.
The name is short. Two syllables, quick to say, easy for a child to write on the first day of school. In a Polish class register it would land plain and unadorned.
The tie to pleasure and delight likely came as a reading of the name rather than its literal first meaning. Rad- carried the idea of being glad long before anyone matched it to a single translation. So Rati arrives already bound to a feeling of contentment, and to the everyday Polish word radość.
How many people are named Rati
1 in 151391 men in Poland is named Rati. 144 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2719 among male names.