Murad
An Arabic name meaning "desired" or "wished for". Around 400 men in Poland carry it, few enough that most Poles have never met one.
Murad Pronunciation
Murad is pronounced MOO-raht (/ˈmurat/).
What Murad means
Where Murad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Murad comes from Arabic, where it means desired or wished for. The word grew from a verbal root tied to wanting and intending, so the sense of a goal sits close to the sense of longing. In Polish the pair reads as pragnienie and cel, a wish and an aim held in one short name.
Five Ottoman sultans carried it. Murad I ruled in the fourteenth century and pushed the empire deep into the Balkans, and the name stayed inside the dynasty for generations after him. It traveled with Turkish, Arabic, and Caucasian families across a wide map.
In Polish the name keeps no diminutives and takes no feminine form. It stands as it is. On a class register in a Polish school today, Murad marks a family with roots outside the old Slavic naming stock, often from the Caucasus or the Middle East. The short meaning stays legible: desired, wished for.
How many people are named Murad
1 in 53499 men in Poland is named Murad. 399 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1483 among male names.
Murad's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Murad as a middle name
Murad is a first name for 399 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2668th, between Mousa (13) and Mussa (13).
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#2666 Morten13
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#2667 Mousa13
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#2668 Murad13
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#2669 Mussa13
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#2670 Nazir13