Farhad
The name carries a plain idea: gained, earned. In Poland it stays rare, held by around 95 men and given to no newborn last year, so most Poles will never meet one.
Farhad Pronunciation
Farhad is pronounced FAHR-khaht (/ˈfarxat/).
What Farhad means
Where Farhad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Farhad reaches Polish name registers with an Arabic association, a sound familiar from names worn across the Middle East. The origin recorded here sits elsewhere, in Slavic ground, and the meaning stays blunt: gained, earned. Zdobyty. A thing worked for rather than handed down.
To read Farhad as "gained" is to hear a small verb under the name. The bearer stands for something acquired through effort rather than received by default. There are no diminutives on record, no softer variant to slip into. The name holds its single shape.
Picture a class register in a Polish school. A teacher reads Farhad aloud, and it sits among the Kacpers and Amelias with no nickname to trim it down. The Arabic association gives it one texture, the Slavic root another. What stays under both is the meaning: gained, earned.
How many people are named Farhad
1 in 224697 men in Poland is named Farhad. 95 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3561 among male names.
Farhad as a middle name
Farhad is a first name for 95 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2617th, between Eweryst (13) and Fayez (13).
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#2615 Erhan13
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#2616 Eweryst13
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#2617 Farhad13
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#2618 Fayez13
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#2619 Fergus13