Gulnaz
Just 59 women in Poland carry it, and no newborn has taken it since at least 2000. A Turkish name meaning "flower delight", so rare that most Poles will never meet one.
Gulnaz Pronunciation
Gulnaz is pronounced GOOL-nahs (/ˈgulnas/).
What Gulnaz means
Where Gulnaz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gülnaz comes from two Persian words. Gul means flower, or rose. Naz means delight, comfort, a kind of charm. Turkish speakers kept the pair and wrote it Gülnaz, the umlaut bending the first vowel forward. The Polish gloss reads piękny kwiat, the English one flower delight.
The rose sits deep in Turkish verse, where the gül returns again and again beside the nightingale. A name built on it lands on ground people already recognize. The element naz shows up in other names too, in Sanaz and in Golnaz, the Persian form. Golnaz keeps the same two halves and the same sense.
On a Polish class register Gülnaz stands between Zofia and Julia, foreign in spelling yet plain in sound. The meaning stays simple. Flower delight.
How many people are named Gulnaz
1 in 382099 women in Poland is named Gulnaz. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4811 among female names.