Baran
A Slavic name meaning "ram", the male sheep. Barely a hundred people in Poland carry it, almost all of them men, and in recent years no boys have been given it at all.
Baran Pronunciation
Baran is pronounced BAH-rahn (/ˈbaran/).
What Baran means
Where Baran comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Baran is the Polish word for a ram, the male sheep. The root sits deep in Slavic: Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian all say baran for the same animal. In Poland the word also names the first sign of the zodiac, Aries, the ram that opens the astrological year.
The name travels beyond the pasture. In Turkey, Baran is a common boy's name, where it means rain. The two senses never meet inside one language, yet the sound ties a Polish animal to a Turkish sky.
In Poland, Baran is heard more as a surname than a first name. Read down a school register and you find it among the family names, a mark of shepherding stock. The ram has long stood for strength and a stubborn push forward, which is why the zodiac took it as its opening sign. Whoever carries Baran carries the plainest of farm words, samiec owcy, the male of the flock.
How many people are named Baran
1 in 203297 men in Poland is named Baran. 109 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3260 among male names.
Baran as a middle name
Baran is a first name for 109 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1432nd, between Anand (33) and Bartlomiej (33).
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#1430 Amit33
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#1431 Anand33
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#1432 Baran33
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#1433 Bartlomiej33
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#1434 Benito33