Adnan
Only about 245 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. Arabic in origin, from a word for "settler".
Adnan Pronunciation
Adnan is pronounced AHD-nahn (/ˈadnan/).
What Adnan means
Where Adnan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Adnan reaches Polish from the Arabic-speaking world, and its origin is filed as other, standing apart from the Slavic and Latin stock behind most names in a Polish register. The meaning recorded for it is settler, in Polish osadnik or mieszkaniec. That reading ties the name to an Arabic root for dwelling and staying put, the same root behind 'adn, a word for a settled and lasting home.
In Arab tradition the name has a genealogy of its own. Adnan is remembered as the forefather of the northern Arabian tribes, the Adnani, and many accounts trace that line back to Ishmael. The name has long stood for belonging to a people and to ground beneath them.
Picture a new pupil named Adnan read from a class register in a Polish school. It has no Polish short form. The name sits among the Janeks and Zofias without a diminutive or variant to soften it. Its meaning holds steady all the same: osadnik, the one who settles and stays.
How many people are named Adnan
1 in 87127 men in Poland is named Adnan. 245 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1969 among male names.
Adnan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Adnan as a middle name
Adnan is a first name for 245 men in Poland and a middle name for another 62, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 923rd, between Nelson (63) and Connor (62).
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#921 Morgan63
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#922 Nelson63
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#923 Adnan62
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#924 Connor62
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#925 Georgios62