Ozan
Turkish for "bard, poet": the ozan was a wandering singer who set the deeds of heroes to a lute called the kopuz. In Poland it stays rare, carried by fewer than 200 people and given to only a handful of boys.
Ozan Pronunciation
Ozan is pronounced O-zahn (/ˈɔzan/).
What Ozan means
Where Ozan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ozan comes from Turkish, where the word names a real profession before it names a child. An ozan was a wandering bard among the Turkic peoples, a singer of epics who carried a lute called the kopuz and set the deeds of heroes to melody. So the name means bard, poet. A child called Ozan wears the poet's title outright.
The tradition runs through Central Asian and Anatolian storytelling. The Book of Dede Korkut, a cycle of Oghuz Turkish tales, seats the ozan at the feast and gives him the closing verses. To sing was to remember. He held the memory of a people who kept moving.
In Poland the name is rare and reads as plainly foreign. On a school class register, Ozan would sit among the Kacpers and Jakubs as the one Turkish word on the page. It has no Polish diminutive to soften it. The meaning stays legible: bard, poet.
How many people are named Ozan
1 in 127061 men in Poland is named Ozan. 168 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2480 among male names.
Ozan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Ozan as a middle name
Ozan is a first name for 168 men in Poland and a middle name for another 39, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1282nd, between Menachem (39) and Patricio (39).
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#1280 Mehdi39
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#1281 Menachem39
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#1282 Ozan39
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#1283 Patricio39
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#1284 Pradeep39