Onur
From the Latin for "honour, dignity". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 400 men carry it and hardly anyone meets one, all of them male.
Onur Pronunciation
Onur is pronounced O-noor (/ˈɔnur/).
What Onur means
Where Onur comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Onur comes from Turkey, where parents give it to boys and read it as honour, dignity. Unusually for a first name, that meaning is also its origin. Follow the word back and you reach Latin honor, the term for public esteem, the same root that gave English its honour and French its honneur. Turkish took the name from that French form in the modern period.
Latin honor did not describe a private feeling. It named the regard of a community, the offices and respect a person earned in the open. Onur holds on to that civic sense. To carry it is to be marked by a standard of conduct.
There are no diminutives here, no softened variants, no cross-gender pair. The name stands as one word.
On a Polish class register, Onur now turns up among the children of Turkish families settled here, filed between more familiar entries. A teacher reads it once and remembers the Latin behind it: honor, dignity.
How many people are named Onur
1 in 53634 men in Poland is named Onur. 398 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1488 among male names.
Onur as a middle name
Onur is a first name for 398 men in Poland and a middle name for another 62, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 929th, between Oleksandr (62) and Sanjay (62).
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#927 Murat62
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#928 Oleksandr62
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#929 Onur62
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#930 Sanjay62
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#931 Stewart62