Arzu
A Turkish name meaning "desire" or "wish". Fewer than 160 people in Poland carry it, mostly women though some men too, so meeting one stays memorable.
Arzu Pronunciation
Arzu is pronounced AH-zhoo (/ˈaʐu/).
What Arzu means
Where Arzu comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arzu means a wish, a desire. The word reached Turkish from Persian, where ārzū already named the longing for something not yet in hand. In Persian it is still an ordinary word, used every day for what a person hopes to get. It runs on two light syllables.
Turkish folklore gave the name a well-known bearer. In the tale of Arzu ile Kamber, retold from Anatolia to Iraq and Azerbaijan, Arzu and Kamber grow up in one household and fall in love, then are kept apart until both of them die. The name stayed tied to the wanting itself, to desire more than to its having.
No diminutive or variant is recorded for it, and no masculine form. A girl called Arzu is given the plain word for wish.
How many people are named Arzu
1 in 194343 women in Poland is named Arzu. 158 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2564 among female names.
Arzu as a middle name
Arzu is a first name for 158 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 95/5 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2707th, between Aranka (8) and Asha (8).
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#2705 Antonieta8
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#2706 Aranka8
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#2707 Arzu8
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#2708 Asha8
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#2709 Astrit8