Sagar
From the Sanskrit sāgara, the sea. In Poland it stays foreign and rare: most Poles have never met a Sagar, and every one they might is a man.
Sagar Pronunciation
Sagar is pronounced SAH-gahr (/ˈsagar/).
What Sagar means
Where Sagar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Sagar comes from Sanskrit, where sāgara means the sea, the great body of salt water that rings a coast. In English the short meaning holds steady: ocean, sea. Across northern India the name is common for boys, and it holds that vast wet sense plainly.
There is a story behind the Sanskrit word itself. In old texts including the Ramayana, Sagara was a king whose many sons dug into the earth searching for a stolen horse, and the great pit they hollowed out filled with water and became the ocean. So the word for sea took the king's name, or the king gave his name to the sea, depending on which telling you trust.
For a child in Poland the name would look foreign on a class register. It has no name-day, no Polish diminutive, none of the softening that Katarzyna or Piotr collect over long centuries of use. What it offers instead is plain and geographic. Sagar means the ocean.
How many people are named Sagar
1 in 99285 men in Poland is named Sagar. 215 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2133 among male names.
Sagar as a middle name
Sagar is a first name for 215 men in Poland and a middle name for another 18, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2165th, between Sacha (18) and Saleem (18).
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#2163 Rosław18
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#2164 Sacha18
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#2165 Sagar18
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#2166 Saleem18
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#2167 Serhat18