Firdavs
Rooted in the Arabic word for "paradise". Just 111 men in Poland carry it, all of them male, and most Poles have never met one.
Firdavs Pronunciation
What Firdavs means
Where Firdavs comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Firdavs comes from the Arabic Firdaws, the word for the highest garden of paradise in Islam. That Arabic word was itself a loan. It traces back to an Old Iranian term for a walled garden, the same root that gave English its word paradise. The short meaning is plain: raj, paradise.
The name lives mostly east of Arabic today. In Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Firdavs is a familiar given name for boys, with a final -v standing where Arabic writes -ws. The Persian poet Ferdowsi, author of the Shahnameh, carries the same paradisal root in his pen name, so the word holds a long literary record.
A Polish teacher reading a class register could meet Firdavs in a family newly arrived from Dushanbe. The spelling keeps its origin in place. Whoever answers to it answers to the word for paradise.
How many people are named Firdavs
1 in 192308 men in Poland is named Firdavs. 111 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3235 among male names.