Nariman
An Arabic name meaning "brave hero". It stays rare in Poland: just 95 men carry it, all male, and no newborns get it now.
Nariman Pronunciation
Nariman is pronounced nah-REE-mahn (/naˈriman/).
What Nariman means
Where Nariman comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Nariman reached Arabic-speaking families from further east, and its origin sits outside Arabic itself. It traces back to old Iranian speech, where forms like the Avestan nairyō.manah meant something close to "heroic-minded." The short meaning carried today, brave hero, rests directly on that root.
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the Persian epic, gives the name its oldest face. Nariman there is a warrior, the father of Sam and an ancestor of the great Rostam. Rostam descends from him. A child called Nariman inherits a line of epic soldiers before he can spell it.
In a Polish class register, Nariman lands among the Kacpers and Zuzannas as plainly foreign. It has no Polish name-day and no diminutive of its own. What it keeps is the sense it brought from the east: brave hero, heroic-minded.
How many people are named Nariman
1 in 224697 men in Poland is named Nariman. 95 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3566 among male names.
Nariman as a middle name
Nariman is a first name for 95 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6466th, between Nara (2) and Narina (2).
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#6464 Naomie2
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#6465 Nara2
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#6466 Nariman2
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#6467 Narina2
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#6468 Narmin2