Kairat
The name carries the sense of "strength, courage". It stays rare in Poland: only about 90 men hold it, and the records show no boys given it in recent years.
Kairat Pronunciation
Kairat is pronounced kah-EE-raht (/kaˈirat/).
What Kairat means
Where Kairat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kairat is a man's name from the Kazakh steppe. It grows from qairat, a word for strength and drive. That origin sits outside the European families that fill most Polish name lists, and the short meaning holds to the root: strength, courage.
The sense is plain.
Kazakh families use the name across Kazakhstan and the wider Central Asian region. The Kazakh word reaches back to an Arabic term for zeal and effort. One bearer anyone can check is FC Kairat, the football club founded in Almaty in 1954. The word turns up there in match reports and league tables, far from any dictionary of etymology.
Read from a class register in a Polish school, Kairat would stand apart from the Kacpers and Kubas around it. The name keeps one reading wherever it lands: strength, courage.
How many people are named Kairat
1 in 232024 men in Poland is named Kairat. 92 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3639 among male names.