Gulnara
The name means "pomegranate flower". In Poland it barely registers: about 134 women carry it and most Poles have never met one, so each Gulnara stands out.
Gulnara Pronunciation
Gulnara is pronounced gool-NAH-rah (/gulˈnara/).
What Gulnara means
Where Gulnara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gulnara grew from Persian words that spread across many languages. Gul means flower, and nar names the pomegranate. Together they give the reading recorded here: pomegranate flower. The name moved east into Turkic speech and became common for girls in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and the Tatar lands.
The pomegranate flower is a small red bloom that opens before the fruit sets. That picture stands behind the name.
Byron gave Gulnara a place in English verse. In his 1814 poem The Corsair, Gulnare is the woman who frees the captured hero, Conrad. Verdi later brought her to the stage in the opera Il corsaro, where she keeps the name Gulnara.
In Poland the name is rare, and it usually marks a family with roots further east. On a school register it stands out among the Zofias and Julias. What it means stays fixed: the flower of the pomegranate.
How many people are named Gulnara
1 in 168238 women in Poland is named Gulnara. 134 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2862 among female names.
Gulnara as a middle name
Gulnara is a first name for 134 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5941st, between Gulia (2) and Gulsen (2).
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#5939 Gudruna2
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#5940 Gulia2
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#5941 Gulnara2
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#5942 Gulsen2
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#5943 Gundel2