Azad
The name carries the sense of "free" and "noble". It stays rare in Poland: just over a hundred men hold it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Azad Pronunciation
Azad is pronounced AH-zaht (/ˈazat/).
What Azad means
Where Azad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Azad comes from Persian, where âzâd means free. The word travelled across Kurdish, Turkish, and other languages of the region, and it kept that first sense of a person let out of bondage. In Middle Persian the related form âzâd also marked someone of noble birth, a free citizen set apart from the servant. The two meanings given here, free and noble, sit inside that one old word.
The name suits men and women both, depending on the language and the family. It fits a girl or a boy. In Kurdish it grew heavy with the idea of liberty, and it turns up in poems and songs about a free people.
In a Polish class register today, Azad might sit between an Antoni and a Bartosz, brought by a family with roots further east. The Polish gloss keeps it plain: wolny, free.
How many people are named Azad
1 in 161714 men in Poland is named Azad. 132 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2886 among male names.
Azad's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Azad as a middle name
Azad is a first name for 132 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1845th, between Ariusz (22) and Bennett (22).
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#1843 Anas22
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#1844 Ariusz22
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#1845 Azad22
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#1846 Bennett22
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#1847 Bharatkumar22