Jasur
The name carries the sense of "brave, courageous". In Poland it stays rare: just over a hundred men use it, all of them male, and no boys were given it last year.
Jasur Pronunciation
Jasur is pronounced YAH-soor (/ˈjasur/).
What Jasur means
Where Jasur comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jasur travels light. It comes from the Arabic jasūr, a word for someone bold and daring, and it settled into Uzbek and Tajik as a given name for boys. The short meaning stays close to that root: brave, courageous.
The site files its origin under other, outside the Slavic and Latin families that fill most Polish registers. That placement is honest. Jasur belongs to Central Asia, to Tashkent and Samarkand, where the Arabic adjective became a name given without translation. A boy called Jasur holds a plain claim to courage in the meaning itself.
In Poland the name is rare, and it arrives mostly through families with Uzbek or Tajik ties. On a Polish class register it would sit among the Jakubs and Jans as something newer. It has no established imieniny, and no Polish diminutive worn smooth by use.
What it keeps is the meaning. Odważny, dzielny. Brave.
How many people are named Jasur
1 in 197650 men in Poland is named Jasur. 108 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3277 among male names.