Qaisar
It carries the sense of "emperor," a cousin of Caesar that traveled east into Arabic. In Poland it's about as rare as a name gets: only ten men answer to it, and no boy has been given it this century.
Qaisar Pronunciation
What Qaisar means
Where Qaisar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Qaisar begins in Rome. The Latin Caesar was one family's surname before Augustus, then it became the title every emperor took. Arabic borrowed it as Qayṣar, the standing word for the Roman and later Byzantine emperor. The Polish cesarz comes from the same Latin root, and so do German Kaiser and Russian tsar.
In early Islamic sources Qayṣar names the Byzantine ruler, the emperor Heraclius among them. From a title the word passed into use as a personal name in Urdu, Persian, and Arabic, where it still reads as emperor, władca in Polish.
On a Polish class register Qaisar sits among more familiar names, its Latin bones hidden under an Arabic spelling. The sense stays fixed. Caesar went east and came back as a first name meaning emperor, władca.
How many people are named Qaisar
1 in 2134619 men in Poland is named Qaisar. 10 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #16479 among male names.
Qaisar as a middle name
Qaisar is a first name for 10 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8540th, between Płamen (2) and Qin (2).
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#8538 Purushottam2
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#8539 Płamen2
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#8540 Qaisar2
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#8541 Qin2
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#8542 Quang Anh2