Nihad
An Arabic name meaning "loftiness" or "elevation". In Poland it barely registers: fewer than 80 people carry it, nearly all of them men, and no child has been given it this century.
Nihad Pronunciation
Nihad is pronounced NYEE-khaht (/ˈɲixat/).
What Nihad means
Where Nihad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nihad comes from Arabic, where the root carries a sense of height and stature. The meaning recorded here, loftiness and elevation, sits close to that idea of rising ground. Its origin is classed simply as other, outside the Slavic and Christian stock that fills most Polish registers. Polish glosses render the name as mocny, wyniosły. Strong and lofty.
The name reached the Balkans with Islam and settled among Bosnian Muslims. In Arabic it is written نهاد. One bearer is Nihad Đedović, a Bosnian basketball player born in 1990. Another is Nihad Sirees, a Syrian novelist born in Aleppo in 1950, whose book The Silence and the Roar was banned at home. Written into a Polish class register, Nihad would draw a second look from the teacher.
No diminutive comes attached to it here, no softened variant. That plainness suits a word about elevation. The short meaning stays where it began, in loftiness.
How many people are named Nihad
1 in 284616 men in Poland is named Nihad. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4068 among male names.
Nihad as a middle name
Nihad is a first name for 77 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5128th, between Nidia (3) and Nikolet (3).
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#5126 Nicolet3
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#5127 Nidia3
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#5128 Nihad3
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#5129 Nikolet3
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#5130 Nilay3