Qamar
Arabic for "moon", carried by just 17 people in Poland and split across women and men alike. Most Poles have never met one, and no newborns have taken it this century.
Qamar Pronunciation
What Qamar means
Where Qamar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Qamar comes from Arabic, where the word قمر means the moon. Not the pale sliver of a new crescent, which Arabic marks with a separate word, but the full disc once it has grown bright. So the name points at the moon at its most complete, the one that lights a road at night.
Qamar sits in the register of names given to girls and boys alike across the Arabic-speaking world. It stays close to the plain noun. A child called Qamar carries the ordinary word for the thing overhead, the way a Polish ear hears Gwiazda or Zorza and knows the sky is meant.
The moon runs deep in Arabic verse and everyday speech, where calling someone a moon is high praise for a face. That association attached itself to the name over long use. Picture the register at the front of a Warsaw classroom, Qamar listed among the Zuzannas and Antonis, one syllable of another language sitting quietly on the page.
Księżyc, in Polish. That is what Qamar means.
How many people are named Qamar
1 in 1524728 men in Poland is named Qamar. 17 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #11206 among male names.