Kanat
The name means "wing". Just 80 men in Poland carry it, and no boys were given it last year, so most Poles have never met a Kanat.
Kanat Pronunciation
Kanat is pronounced KAH-naht (/ˈkanat/).
What Kanat means
Where Kanat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kanat comes from a Turkic word for wing. In Kazakh and Kyrgyz it is written qanat, and the meaning stays literal: the wing of a bird in flight. Polish gives that sense as skrzydło. The name belongs to Central Asia first, and it reaches Polish rolls through families who moved, studied, or married here.
The meaning is plain. In Kazakh speech the word also holds an idiomatic life, where a wing can stand for the support one person gives another. That idiomatic sense was attached to the flight image later, and the origin stays with the bird.
Picture a Kanat in a Warsaw class register, his name set between Kamil and Karol, shorter than either and stressed on the last beat. Written in Kazakh it is qanat; in Polish the meaning is skrzydło.
How many people are named Kanat
1 in 266827 men in Poland is named Kanat. 80 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3974 among male names.