Nadir
Arabic and Turkish in origin, the name means "rare". In Poland it lives up to that: barely 130 men carry it, all of them male, and most Poles have never met one.
Nadir Pronunciation
Nadir is pronounced NAH-deer (/ˈnadir/).
What Nadir means
Where Nadir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nadir comes to Polish parents by way of Arabic, where nādir means rare or scarce. The word points to something uncommon, a thing you do not meet twice in a season. Turkish families carry it too, as a male given name passed down without much fuss.
History gives it a famous bearer. Nader Shah ruled Persia in the eighteenth century, a soldier who rose from little and took the throne. The spelling reached astronomy through a different Arabic word, naẓīr, marking the point of sky opposite the zenith, straight below your feet.
On a Polish class register the name looks short and plain, four letters and done. It has no diminutive here, no softened Polish variant to slip into. The meaning stays close to the surface: rare.
How many people are named Nadir
1 in 165474 men in Poland is named Nadir. 129 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2936 among male names.
Nadir's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Nadir as a middle name
Nadir is a first name for 129 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2243rd, between Mirza (17) and Naftali (17).
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#2241 Mikail17
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#2242 Mirza17
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#2243 Nadir17
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#2244 Naftali17
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#2245 Nazim17