Berat
A Turkish name meaning "innocence" or "absolution". Fewer than 80 men in Poland carry it, and all of them are men, so most Poles will never meet a Berat.
Berat Pronunciation
Berat is pronounced BE-raht (/ˈbɛrat/).
What Berat means
Where Berat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Berat comes to Polish name lists through Turkish, and its root lies in Arabic. The word barā'a means innocence and release from blame, the sense behind the Polish niewinność and przebaczenie. Turkish speakers meet it once a year in Berat Kandili, the Night of Barā'a, when Muslims mark a night of forgiveness in the month of Sha'ban. So absolution is not a poetic add-on. It sits in the calendar.
The name kept a second, official life in Ottoman Turkish. A berat was a charter, a written grant of office or privilege stamped by the sultan. One word, two paths.
Berat holds no diminutive and no feminine variant in Polish records. It stays short. On a Kraków class register it would sit among the M-names as its own small fact, four letters and no nickname. The meaning a Polish parent reads in a dictionary, innocence and absolution, is the meaning a Turkish family hears on Berat Kandili.
How many people are named Berat
1 in 270205 men in Poland is named Berat. 79 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3994 among male names.
Berat's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Berat as a middle name
Berat is a first name for 79 men in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1739th, between Anesu (24) and Bernardus (24).
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#1737 Alperen24
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#1738 Anesu24
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#1739 Berat24
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#1740 Bernardus24
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#1741 Bjørn24