Emrah
A Turkish name that reference works can't trace to one clean root, so they file it under "other"; the meaning that stuck is "brave warrior". Fewer than 200 men in Poland carry it, all from families with Turkish roots, and most Poles have never met one.
Emrah Pronunciation
Emrah is pronounced EM-rahkh (/ˈɛmrax/).
What Emrah means
Where Emrah comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Emrah is a Turkish man's name whose deeper origin stays unsettled. Reference works file it under "other", a way of admitting the trail runs out before it reaches one clean root. What travelled into Polish use is a plain reading of the name: brave warrior. That sense arrived as reputation, attached to Emrah once people had carried it a while, rather than as a literal translation of any root word.
In Turkey the name's most famous bearer is the singer Emrah, born Emrah Erdoğan İpek on 1 January 1971 in Ergani. As a child star of the 1980s he was known as Küçük Emrah, Little Emrah, and he has since sold more than 25 million records. For many families the name points first to him.
Poland meets Emrah on official forms and class registers, brought by households with Turkish roots. Picture an official at the urząd sounding out the two syllables. There is no Polish diminutive here and no name-day in the calendar. What the name offers instead is short and firm: brave warrior.
How many people are named Emrah
1 in 120600 men in Poland is named Emrah. 177 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2389 among male names.
Emrah as a middle name
Emrah is a first name for 177 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5346th, between Elisei (4) and Ender (4).
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#5344 Eliam4
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#5345 Elisei4
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#5346 Emrah4
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#5347 Ender4
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#5348 Engel4