Anvar
An Arabic name meaning "light" or "luminous". Fewer than 200 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet an Anvar in their life.
Anvar Pronunciation
What Anvar means
Where Anvar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anvar comes into Polish records through Central Asia and the Persian-speaking world, where it settled as a form of the Arabic Anwar. That older name is the superlative of "nur", the word for light. So Anvar reads as the more luminous, the brighter one. The short Polish gloss, świetlisty and olśniewający, keeps that reading intact.
The Arabic association travels with the name even where its origin is filed simply as other. Anwar al-Sadat, the Egyptian president, carried the parent form, and Anvar names men today across Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the Tatar communities of the Volga.
In a Polish class register, Anvar sits near Antoni and Aleksander, a short name with no diminutive of its own and no feminine twin. It has no imieniny fixed in the calendar. Bearers here often mark a birthday instead.
Light is the whole story. From Anwar to Anvar, the meaning holds: luminous.
How many people are named Anvar
1 in 107267 men in Poland is named Anvar. 199 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2228 among male names.