Bahar
Only 89 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them women, so most Poles have never met one. It comes from Turkish, where it means spring, the season.
Bahar Pronunciation
Bahar is pronounced BAH-khahr (/ˈbaxar/).
What Bahar means
Where Bahar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bahar comes from Persian bahâr, the word for spring, the season that follows winter. Turkish borrowed it whole and turned it into a girl's name. So a woman called Bahar wears the plain Turkish word for warm months and new leaves.
The name belongs to a Turkish habit of naming daughters after the natural world. Yağmur means rain. Deniz means sea. Bahar sits beside them, and it keeps its everyday meaning even when it stands on a birth certificate. The grounding here lists no diminutives and no variants, which fits a word that is already short and already complete.
For a Polish family the name arrives without a Slavic root and without a saint's day. On a class register it would read as foreign, and a teacher might pause over it once.
The meaning stays fixed across every use. In Turkish, bahar is spring. In Polish, that is wiosna.
How many people are named Bahar
1 in 268379 women in Poland is named Bahar. 89 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3716 among female names.
Bahar as a middle name
Bahar is a first name for 89 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2052nd, between Azra (13) and Banu (13).
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#2050 Asya13
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#2051 Azra13
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#2052 Bahar13
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#2053 Banu13
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#2054 Beda13