Erol
A Turkish name meaning "brave". Only about 90 men in Poland carry it, and not one boy was given it last year, so meeting an Erol would stick in your memory.
Erol Pronunciation
Erol is pronounced E-rol (/ˈɛrɔl/).
What Erol means
Where Erol comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Erol is a Turkish man's name. It fuses "er," an old Turkish word for a soldier or a brave man, with "ol," the imperative "be." Read literally, the name tells its bearer to be brave. This root sits outside the Slavic and Latin stock that fills most Polish records.
The name stays rare here. In Poland it reads at once as foreign. On a class register in Kraków, Erol would sit among the Kacpers and Anteks as the single Turkish entry. It has no Polish diminutive of its own, no Erolek fixed by habit, so it stays whole on the page.
The meaning people give, brave, sits right at the root rather than arriving later. Turkish "er" already spoke of courage, and "ol" pressed that into a wish. A boy named Erol gets one plain word: odważny.
How many people are named Erol
1 in 237180 men in Poland is named Erol. 90 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3698 among male names.
Erol as a middle name
Erol is a first name for 90 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3094th, between Emmett (10) and Esat (10).
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#3092 Eldin10
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#3093 Emmett10
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#3094 Erol10
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#3095 Esat10
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#3096 Eze10