Metin
A Turkish name meaning "strong, solid." Just 127 men in Poland carry it, few enough that most Poles have never met one.
Metin Pronunciation
Metin is pronounced ME-teen (/ˈmɛtin/).
What Metin means
Where Metin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Metin is a Turkish man's name that means firm, strong, solid. Its root reaches into Arabic, where matīn describes something built to hold. In Islamic tradition, al-Matīn stands among the ninety-nine names of God, glossed as the Firm, the one whose strength does not tire. A name carrying that sense arrives with a clear job.
The meaning stays close to the surface. Turkish keeps metin as an ordinary adjective for solid or sturdy, so a Turkish speaker hears the quality before the person. In Polish the sense lands as twardy, solidny.
It travels light. There are no common diminutives or variants recorded for it, no softened cross-gender pair. A child called Metin on a Polish class register wears the full name each time the teacher reads it out.
The word behind the name still means solid.
How many people are named Metin
1 in 168080 men in Poland is named Metin. 127 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2964 among male names.
Metin as a middle name
Metin is a first name for 127 men in Poland and a middle name for another 26, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1685th, between Matti (26) and Micheal (26).
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#1683 Marlon26
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#1684 Matti26
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#1685 Metin26
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#1686 Micheal26
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#1687 Nicolai26