Anar
The name means "pomegranate", the fruit itself. In Poland it belongs to just over 400 people, most of them men, and it's rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Anar Pronunciation
Anar is pronounced AH-nahr (/ˈanar/).
What Anar means
Where Anar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anar comes from Persian, where the word انار names the pomegranate. Its origin sits outside Europe's usual stock of names, so a Polish child called Anar holds a word that traveled from Iranian orchards rather than from a saint's calendar. The short meaning is a fruit.
The same word lives in Urdu and Hindi, still meaning pomegranate, still spoken in markets and in film songs about something sweet. That reach across languages is checkable, not folklore. Anar is one of those words a traveler picks up fast, because the fruit is sold on nearly every corner.
In Polish the sense lands as granat, the fruit. The Polish granat does triple duty, naming the pomegranate, the deep navy color, and the grenade, all three tied back to the seed-heavy fruit whose Latin name gave European languages the word grenade. A teacher reading Anar off a class register would not find it among the usual Polish names, and no imieniny marks it in the calendar. What the name offers instead is direct: granat, the pomegranate.
How many people are named Anar
1 in 54594 men in Poland is named Anar. 422 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1445 among male names.
Anar as a middle name
Anar is a first name for 422 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7170th, between Ananta (2) and Anargyros (2).
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#7168 Anan2
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#7169 Ananta2
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#7170 Anar2
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#7171 Anargyros2
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#7172 Anatolio2