Khurshid
A name that means "sun", carried in Arabic. In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 70 men bear it, and most Poles will never have met one.
Khurshid Pronunciation
What Khurshid means
Where Khurshid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Khurshid comes from Persian, where it names the sun. The older form reaches back to Avestan hvarə xšaēta, "shining sun," and the word traveled well beyond Iran. It settled into the Arabic cultural sphere and into Urdu, carried by Islamic learning and trade. The short meaning holds across those borders: sun, słońce.
History gives the name a clear bearer. Khurshid was the last Dabuyid ruler of Tabaristan, a region by the Caspian Sea, who died around 761. He held out against the Abbasid armies from the mountains of northern Iran. A ruler named for the sun, resisting from high ground.
The name stays masculine and arrives without diminutives or variants. That plainness suits it. On a Polish class register, Khurshid would sit among names with no Polish imieniny, a sun-word that came in from Persian. The meaning needs no translation once you know it: Khurshid is the sun.
How many people are named Khurshid
1 in 309365 men in Poland is named Khurshid. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4351 among male names.
Khurshid as a middle name
Khurshid is a first name for 69 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 95/5 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5530th, between Khader (4) and Khôi (4).
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#5528 Kennet4
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#5529 Khader4
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#5530 Khurshid4
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#5531 Khôi4
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#5532 Kjell4