Alper
A Germanic name meaning "brave man, hero", kept in use mainly by Turkish families. Just 143 men in Poland carry it, so meeting one stays memorable, and it goes only to boys.
Alper Pronunciation
Alper is pronounced AHL-per (/ˈalpɛr/).
What Alper means
Where Alper comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alper is a Turkish name built on a Germanic root. The meaning stays blunt across both: brave man, hero.
In Turkey the name reads as praise you can say out loud, a claim of courage fixed to a person from birth. The Germanic origin gives it an older layer, a word for strength that traveled and settled into new mouths. There are no diminutives here, no softened forms for a small child. Alper arrives whole.
On a Polish class register the name would sit apart from Kacper and Szymon, foreign but easy to say. A Polish reader meets it as odważny bohater, the brave hero, and the sense holds without translation gymnastics. It asks nothing of the bearer except that he answer to it.
The name has no name-day of its own in the Polish calendar. What stays instead is that flat, unhidden meaning: brave man, hero.
How many people are named Alper
1 in 149274 men in Poland is named Alper. 143 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2730 among male names.
Alper's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Alper as a middle name
Alper is a first name for 143 men in Poland and a middle name for another 35, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1375th, between Aldo (35) and Aram (35).
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#1373 Alam35
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#1374 Aldo35
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#1375 Alper35
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#1376 Aram35
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#1377 Arne35