Ildar
The name carries the sense "ruler of the homeland". In Poland it stays vanishingly rare: about 80 men hold it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Ildar Pronunciation
Ildar is pronounced EEL-dahr (/ˈildar/).
What Ildar means
Where Ildar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ildar comes from the Tatar and Bashkir peoples of the Volga region and the Urals, where it has served as a man's name for generations. The name joins two older pieces. Persian il means homeland or country. Persian dar means holder or keeper. Together they give the reading that Polish sources record as władca ojczyzny, ruler of the homeland.
One well-known bearer makes the name easy to place. Ildar Abdrazakov, the opera bass born in Ufa in 1976, carries it onto the world's great stages. His success gave the name a public face far from Bashkortostan.
On a Polish class register, Ildar reads as a name from the east, unusual but not hard to say. The stress falls on the second syllable, eel-DAR. The two parts stay legible: il, the homeland, and dar, the one who holds it.
How many people are named Ildar
1 in 266827 men in Poland is named Ildar. 80 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3971 among male names.
Ildar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.