Burak
A Slavic name meaning "lightning". Only about 390 men in Poland carry it and no boys were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Burak Pronunciation
Burak is pronounced BOO-rahk (/ˈburak/).
What Burak means
Where Burak comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Burak stands at a border. The name looks Slavic in form, yet it lives most fully in Turkish, where Burak has been carried by boys and men for generations. Its short meaning is lightning. In Polish that is błyskawica, a sudden flash of light.
The Turkish Burak traces back to the Arabic Buraq, the winged steed that carried Muhammad on his night ride, and that word sits close to barq, meaning lightning. So the sense of lightning reaches the name through this older story rather than through any Slavic root, and it settled there over time.
Burak keeps no standard Polish diminutive, no softer everyday variant. On a school register it reads as a single, unusual entry. The meaning stays fixed to that first flash: lightning, błyskawica.
How many people are named Burak
1 in 54734 men in Poland is named Burak. 390 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1500 among male names.
Burak as a middle name
Burak is a first name for 390 men in Poland and a middle name for another 106, a 79/21 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 690th, between Bruce (106) and Heliodor (106).
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#688 Bernd106
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#689 Bruce106
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#690 Burak106
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#691 Heliodor106
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#692 Hugon106