Sunil
Sanskrit at root, from *su* "deep" and *nīla* "blue": together they name a color, dark blue, the sky just after sunset. Fewer than 300 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Sunil Pronunciation
Sunil is pronounced SOO-nyeel (/ˈsuɲil/).
What Sunil means
Where Sunil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sunil comes to Polish records from far outside them. Its origin is Sanskrit, from su, meaning good or deep, joined to nīla, the word for blue. Together they give a color, dark blue, ciemny błękit. It is the shade of a sky just after sunset.
That color is the whole of the name. Sunil does not point to a saint or a Slavic root. It names a hue, and it has done so across South Asia for generations, worn mostly by men.
In a Warsaw school register the name would sit alone among the Jakubs and Piotrs. A teacher might pause on it. The pause is the point, because the name arrives with its meaning intact and needs no local cousin to explain it.
Dark blue. That is what Sunil says, and it says nothing else.
How many people are named Sunil
1 in 79948 men in Poland is named Sunil. 267 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1869 among male names.
Sunil as a middle name
Sunil is a first name for 267 men in Poland and a middle name for another 48, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1104th, between Rosario (48) and Tim (48).
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#1102 Nuno48
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#1103 Rosario48
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#1104 Sunil48
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#1105 Tim48
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#1106 Tinotenda48