Ferhat
Turkish in origin, read there as happiness and joy, with the older Persian form Farhad as a close relative. In Poland it stays rare and male: around 170 people carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Ferhat Pronunciation
Ferhat is pronounced FER-khaht (/ˈfɛrxat/).
What Ferhat means
Where Ferhat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ferhat comes to Polish name lists from Turkish, where people read it as happiness and joy. The origin sits outside the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most registers here. It leans toward Persian, where the older form Farhad is its close relative.
Turkish keeps a story fastened to the name. In the folk tale Ferhat ile Şirin, Ferhat is a stonecutter who cuts through a mountain to reach the woman he loves. The same figure appears as Farhad in Nizami's twelfth-century poem Khosrow and Shirin, hammering at the rock of Mount Bisitun. Love drives that plot. The sense of happiness settled onto the name later, in ordinary Turkish speech, rather than in the legend.
The name stays male, with no Polish diminutive to soften it.
On a Polish class register, Ferhat lands between Filip and Franciszek, a short entry a teacher reads once and remembers. There is no saint behind it, so an imieniny for a Ferhat is a family arrangement, not a fixed date on the calendar. In Turkish the name still means happiness and joy.
How many people are named Ferhat
1 in 127061 men in Poland is named Ferhat. 168 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2475 among male names.
Ferhat as a middle name
Ferhat is a first name for 168 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 94/6 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2928th, between Farag (11) and Geert (11).
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#2926 Eyal11
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#2927 Farag11
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#2928 Ferhat11
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#2929 Geert11
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#2930 Gennaro11