Irfan
An Arabic name meaning "knowledge, awareness". It's rare in Poland: 89 men carry it and none were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Irfan Pronunciation
Irfan is pronounced EER-fahn (/ˈirfan/).
What Irfan means
Where Irfan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Irfan belongs to Arabic naming, and its sense runs to knowledge and awareness. The Arabic word ʿirfan describes a kind of knowing that reaches past memorized fact. In the vocabulary of Islamic mysticism it names gnosis, an inner recognition of what is real. A boy given this name carries that older meaning of learning and insight.
There is no diminutive.
The name has no separate feminine form in Polish records either. A child called Irfan might turn up on a class register in a Polish szkoła, listed between Igor and Iga, a sign of how widely the name now travels. Poland sets no fixed imieniny for it, so there is no date on the calendar to mark. What holds steady is the root behind it: ʿirfan, awareness, the knowledge a person recognizes rather than simply stores.
How many people are named Irfan
1 in 239845 men in Poland is named Irfan. 89 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3723 among male names.
Irfan as a middle name
Irfan is a first name for 89 men in Poland and a middle name for another 26, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1679th, between Imre (26) and Kamel (26).
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#1677 Idris26
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#1678 Imre26
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#1679 Irfan26
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#1680 Kamel26
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#1681 Karl-Heinz26