Rohit
From Sanskrit *rohita*, the red of the sky before sunrise: the first rays of sun. In Poland it stays rare, carried by around 160 men and no one else, so meeting one is something you remember.
Rohit Pronunciation
Rohit is pronounced RO-kheet (/ˈrɔxit/).
What Rohit means
Where Rohit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rohit comes from Sanskrit, where rohita means red. The name marks the color of dawn, the first rays of sun before the day fully opens. Its short meaning stays close to that source: red, first rays of sun. In old texts the same root names the red of fire and the red of a horse's coat, so the color came first and the sunrise reading grew around it.
On a Polish school register the name looks like a guest. It has no imieniny in the Polish calendar, no diminutive worn smooth by aunts, no Zosia or Kuba to shrink into. A child named Rohit at a Warsaw urząd carries a word that Polish never softened.
That plainness has its own use. The name says one thing and says it clearly: the red of the sky at the start of the day. No saint stands behind it, no local legend. What stands behind it is the color itself, the same rohita that named red horses centuries before anyone filled out a form. To carry Rohit in Poland is to carry a Sanskrit word for red into a language that kept it whole.
How many people are named Rohit
1 in 132585 men in Poland is named Rohit. 161 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2549 among male names.
Rohit as a middle name
Rohit is a first name for 161 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2256th, between Regis (17) and Roque (17).
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#2254 Reed17
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#2255 Regis17
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#2256 Rohit17
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#2257 Roque17
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#2258 Rubin17