Akbar
An Arabic name meaning "greatest". In Poland it stays rare: about 130 men carry it, and hardly any boys receive it now, so meeting one sticks in the memory.
Akbar Pronunciation
Akbar is pronounced AHG-bahr (/ˈagbar/).
What Akbar means
Where Akbar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Akbar comes from Arabic, where it is the elative form of kabīr, "great." The elative pushes an adjective to its limit, so Akbar means "greatest" or "greater." A Polish speaker would render it as największy. The same word sits inside the phrase Allāhu akbar, "God is greatest," which is how many people first meet it.
The best documented bearer is Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, the Mughal emperor who ruled from 1556 to 1605. History remembers him as Akbar the Great. He expanded an empire across much of the Indian subcontinent and kept scholars of several religions at his court. The name did its work literally there. A man called "greatest" governed as one.
In Poland the name stays rare. A child named Akbar on a school class register marks an Arabic thread in the room, with no Polish diminutive to shorten it.
That is the unusual part. Akbar has no variant, no softened nickname, no cross-gender pair. It arrives as one word and stays that way, meaning największy.
How many people are named Akbar
1 in 156957 men in Poland is named Akbar. 136 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2823 among male names.
Akbar as a middle name
Akbar is a first name for 136 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2475th, between Ademola (14) and Aladyn (14).
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#2473 Adebayo14
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#2474 Ademola14
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#2475 Akbar14
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#2476 Aladyn14
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#2477 Amer14