Firat
Turkish in origin, it carries the name of the Euphrates, the great river of the Middle East. In Poland it stays rare: about 107 men answer to it, all of them, and no boys have been given it lately.
Firat Pronunciation
Firat is pronounced FEE-raht (/ˈfirat/).
What Firat means
Where Firat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Firat is the Turkish name for the Euphrates, the river that runs from the mountains of eastern Anatolia down toward the Persian Gulf. Turkish spells it Fırat, with the dotless i, and the personal name keeps that spelling.
Its root sits outside Turkish. The word reached Turkish through Arabic al-Furāt, and behind that stand the Akkadian Purattu and the Sumerian Buranuna, names for the same water thousands of years before any Turk wrote in Anatolia. A child named Firat holds a word older than the tongue that now carries it.
The meaning stays fixed to one thing: the Euphrates. There is no softer sense layered on top, no diminutive, no feminine twin. On a Polish class register the name would stand out, one river among the Kacpers and Zuzannas. Firat means the Euphrates, and nothing less concrete than that.
How many people are named Firat
1 in 199497 men in Poland is named Firat. 107 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3293 among male names.
Firat as a middle name
Firat is a first name for 107 men in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1470th, between Estanislao (32) and Franck (32).
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#1468 Dwi32
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#1469 Estanislao32
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#1470 Firat32
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#1471 Franck32
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#1472 Gerrit32