Nizar
An Arabic name meaning "small in stature". Only about 76 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one.
Nizar Pronunciation
Nizar is pronounced NYEE-zahr (/ˈɲizar/).
What Nizar means
Where Nizar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Nizar travels into Polish from Arabic, and its short meaning is plain: little, small in stature. In Arabic the root points to something scanty or slight in amount, a smallness that attached itself to a person. Polish reference books file the deeper origin under other, so the Arabic sense is the one readers meet first.
One bearer settled the name in world literature. Nizar Qabbani, the Syrian poet who lived from 1923 to 1998, wrote love poems read across the Arab world. His name says small. His body of work was anything but.
Nizar carries no Polish diminutive and no feminine variant. On a class register in a Polish school it would sit among the shorter entries, quick to read during obecność. Nizar stays as it is, four letters, still meaning small.
How many people are named Nizar
1 in 280871 men in Poland is named Nizar. 76 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4101 among male names.
Nizar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Nizar as a middle name
Nizar is a first name for 76 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2547th, between Nil (14) and Olalekan (14).
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#2545 Naser14
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#2546 Nil14
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#2547 Nizar14
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#2548 Olalekan14
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#2549 Oluwatosin14