Mirza
The name carries the sense of "prince," with Arabic roots. In Poland it stays rare: only around 186 men use it, and most people here have never met one.
Mirza Pronunciation
Mirza is pronounced MEE-zhah (/ˈmiʐa/).
What Mirza means
Where Mirza comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mirza comes from Persian, where mirzā is a clipped form of amīrzādeh. The word joins the Arabic amīr, meaning commander or prince, to the Persian suffix -zādeh, meaning born of. So the literal reading is child of a prince, and the sense that reaches a Polish register today is plain: książę.
Placement once decided everything. Set before a name, mirza marked a learned man or a gentleman. Set after a royal name, it marked a prince of the blood.
Among the Lipka Tatars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, mirza was a title of the nobility. From the seventeenth century, Tatar families used it in Poland, and one of them, Samuel Mirza Krzeczowski, served as a rotmistrz in the royal army. That history is why the word is no stranger here. A child named Mirza on a school register in Białystok stands in a line that runs back through Tatar szlachta to a Persian court. The short meaning has not moved: prince.
How many people are named Mirza
1 in 114764 men in Poland is named Mirza. 186 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2327 among male names.
Mirza as a middle name
Mirza is a first name for 186 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2242nd, between Mikail (17) and Nadir (17).
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#2240 Meli̇h17
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#2241 Mikail17
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#2242 Mirza17
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#2243 Nadir17
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#2244 Naftali17