Otokar
Two old Germanic words joined into one: *aud*, wealth, and *wakr*, watchful, giving a guardian of wealth. Most Poles have never met an Otokar. Open a school register and the name almost never turns up.
Otokar Pronunciation
Otokar is pronounced o-TO-kahr (/ɔˈtɔkar/).
What Otokar means
Where Otokar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Otokar reaches back to a Germanic pairing. The first part, aud, meant wealth or property. The second, wakr, meant watchful. Joined, they carry the meaning the name still holds today: guardian of wealth, in Polish strażnik majątku.
The most famous holder was a king. Přemysl Otakar II ruled Bohemia in the thirteenth century, and in Czech the name settled as Otakar. In Poland it kept the harder shape, Otokar, and stayed rare. Open a school register and you will not find many.
That rarity gives the name a plain kind of weight. It names a job, watching over what a household has gathered, and it says so in two old words rather than one. A boy called Otokar carries a small piece of early medieval Germanic speech inside a Polish form.
Guardian of wealth. The meaning sits right there in the roots.
When Otokar celebrates name day
Otokar appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 26 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Otokar
1 in 7115396 men in Poland is named Otokar. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #40401 among male names.
Otokar as a middle name
Otokar is a first name for 3 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 23/77 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3162nd, between Oktavian (10) and Oz (10).
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#3160 Niranjan10
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#3161 Oktavian10
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#3162 Otokar10
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#3163 Oz10
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#3164 Pankajkumar10