Nargiz
The name carries the narcissus, the spring daffodil. In Poland it stays rare: fewer than a hundred women hold it, all of them female, and none were given it last year.
Nargiz Pronunciation
Nargiz is pronounced NAHR-gees (/ˈnargis/).
What Nargiz means
Where Nargiz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nargiz names a flower. Its short meaning is the narcissus, the daffodil, żonkil in Polish. The word reached Europe from Persian narges (نرگس), the everyday name for that bloom, and Persian took it in turn from Greek narkissos.
In classical Persian poetry the narcissus, narges, stands for the eye of the beloved, its petals read as a half-open gaze. A woman called Nargiz carries that image whether or not anyone around her recalls it. The narcissus blooms early, before most others, and the name kept the flower's sense as it spread east into Azerbaijan and Central Asia, where it is common among women today.
On a Polish class register Nargiz would sit among the Zuzannas without a name-day of its own. The meaning holds under all of it: narges, the narcissus in flower.
How many people are named Nargiz
1 in 227715 women in Poland is named Nargiz. 99 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3480 among female names.