Bairam
A Turkish name meaning "festival" or "holiday". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than a hundred men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Bairam Pronunciation
Bairam is pronounced bah-EE-rahm (/baˈiram/).
What Bairam means
Where Bairam comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bairam reaches Polish name lists through Turkish, where the word bayram means festival or holiday. The Polish gloss keeps that sense exactly: święto, a day lifted out of the working week. Its older origin is filed as other, because scholars still debate the roots behind the Turkic form.
In Turkish, bayram names a whole class of feasts rather than a single date. Kurban Bayramı and Şeker Bayramı mark the largest religious holidays, and the same word turns up in everyday greetings and public rest days. A person called Bairam stands inside that vocabulary of celebration.
The meaning is plain. Whoever carries the name carries a word for the days people gather and set work aside. On a Polish urząd form the spelling Bairam looks foreign, and its Turkish sense of festival travels with it.
How many people are named Bairam
1 in 251132 men in Poland is named Bairam. 85 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3824 among male names.