Gor
The name carries the sense of "fierce" or "battle-ready", pronounced GOR. It stays rare in Poland: only about 123 men hold it, all of them male, and no boys have been given it in recent years.
Gor Pronunciation
Gor is pronounced GOR (/gɔr/).
What Gor means
Where Gor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gor is short, and it does not soften. The name traces to a Slavic root, gor-, the same root behind Polish goreć, to burn, and gorący, hot. Something in the name runs warm. One syllable, and it lands hard.
The English gloss reads fierce, a sense that reached the name through Armenian, where Gor stands in an old heroic tradition. In Polish the meaning settles as dziki and waleczny, wild and valiant. That reading arrived later than the Slavic root, and it sits on top of it rather than under it.
On a school register, Gor fills one clipped line, easy to call at roll. The name offers no diminutive and no variant to duck behind. What stays is the root gor-, burning, and the borrowed sense fierce.
How many people are named Gor
1 in 173546 men in Poland is named Gor. 123 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3031 among male names.
Gor's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.