Dror
Hebrew for freedom or liberty, and also a word for a sparrow. In Poland it barely registers: about 116 people carry it, nearly all of them men, and no boy has been given it in years.
Dror Pronunciation
Dror is pronounced DROR (/drɔr/).
What Dror means
Where Dror comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dror comes from Hebrew, where it means freedom or liberty. The same word appears in Leviticus 25:10, in the command to proclaim liberty, dror, across the land in the Jubilee year. That single sense gives the name its Jewish weight, and it explains why the name spread among Hebrew-speaking families in the modern era.
The word holds a second meaning too. In Hebrew, dror also names the sparrow, a small free-flying bird. Liberty and the free bird meet inside one short word, and a child who carries the name carries both readings at once.
In Israel the name became common among boys born after the founding of the state. A boy called Dror on a Polish class register would stand out at once, since the name keeps its Hebrew shape with no Polish variant to soften it. There are no diminutives. Its Polish gloss stays plain: wolność.
How many people are named Dror
1 in 199497 men in Poland is named Dror. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3137 among male names.
Dror as a middle name
Dror is a first name for 116 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7545th, between Drogowit (2) and Du (2).
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#7543 Drilon2
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#7544 Drogowit2
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#7545 Dror2
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#7546 Du2
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#7547 Duc An2