Azat
A Turkish name that means "free". It barely registers in Poland: only about 200 men carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Azat Pronunciation
Azat is pronounced AH-zaht (/ˈazat/).
What Azat means
Where Azat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Azat comes from the Persian word āzād, meaning free, which traces back to an Old Iranian form for born free. From Persian the word spread into Turkic languages, and it is with Turkish and its neighbours that the name is most at home. The short meaning stays close to that source: free, or in Polish wolny.
The same root traveled far. Armenian borrowed azat long ago as the name for a class of free noble landholders and mounted warriors, so the sense of freedom here rests on documented history rather than folk invention. In Turkish the verb azat etmek still means to set someone free. A bearer of the name shares a root with that everyday word.
Its meaning needs no decoding.
Read out on a Polish class register, Azat would stand among Slavic and saint names as a plain import, its origin outside the Latin and Christian tradition. No settled Polish diminutive or feminine form is recorded for it. What the name gives is one transparent word out of Persian: free.
How many people are named Azat
1 in 105154 men in Poland is named Azat. 205 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2196 among male names.
Azat's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Azat as a middle name
Azat is a first name for 205 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4157th, between Azariasz (6) and Azeez (6).
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#4155 Ayo6
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#4156 Azariasz6
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#4157 Azat6
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#4158 Azeez6
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#4159 Babar6