Nursultan
The name reads as "light of a sultan," carried in Poland by just over a hundred men and no one else. Almost no Pole has met one, and none have been given the name in recent years.
Nursultan Pronunciation
Nursultan is pronounced noor-SOOL-tahn (/nurˈsultan/).
What Nursultan means
Where Nursultan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nursultan reaches Polish name registers from far outside the Slavic and Latin worlds. Its origin is filed simply as other. The name joins two old borrowings. "Nur" is an Arabic word for light, and "sultan" is a title of rule. Put together, they give the sense recorded here, light of a sultan.
The name also holds a documented modern history. In 2019 Kazakhstan renamed its capital, Astana, to Nur-Sultan, honouring the country's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. The city kept that name until 2022, when officials changed it back to Astana. For three years the word named a whole capital.
On a Polish class register, Nursultan would sit apart from the Kamils and Piotrs around it. The name did not grow from Polish soil. It arrives whole, an Arabic "nur" and a ruler's title bound into one meaning, light of a sultan.
How many people are named Nursultan
1 in 192308 men in Poland is named Nursultan. 111 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3244 among male names.