Özgür
A Turkish name that means "free, independent". In Poland it barely registers: fewer than 150 people carry it, nearly all of them men, and most Poles will never meet one.
Özgür Pronunciation
Özgür is pronounced ÖZGÜR (/özgür/).
What Özgür means
Where Özgür comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Özgür comes from Turkish, where it means free and independent. The Polish sense is the same, wolny and niezależny. It is a modern name, not grown from the Greek and Latin roots that fill most of a Polish calendar. In Turkey it belongs to girls and boys alike, since the word itself has no gender.
One living bearer makes the word concrete. Özgür Özel became chairman of Turkey's main opposition party, the CHP, in November 2023. His given name reads like a stated value, a rare thing for a first name.
Özgür keeps no Polish diminutive. There is no short form for daily use. Picture a szkoła class register: the name sits there in full, its dotted o a visitor from further east. The teacher reads it whole, Özgür, free and independent.
How many people are named Özgür
1 in 151391 men in Poland is named Özgür. 145 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2709 among male names.
Özgür as a middle name
Özgür is a first name for 145 men in Poland and a middle name for another 27, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1659th, between Ðức (27) and Abdulrahman (26).
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#1657 Yehoshua27
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#1658 Ðức27
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#1659 Özgür27
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#1660 Abdulrahman26
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#1661 Abebe26