Marat
At root it means "desired, wished for". The name barely registers in Poland, carried by only a few hundred men, yet it's slowly climbing: a few boys get it each year now, after two decades of almost none.
Marat Pronunciation
Marat is pronounced MAH-raht (/ˈmarat/).
What Marat means
Where Marat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Marat travels under two histories. Among Tatar and Bashkir families it stands close to Murat and Murad, names from the Arabic murād, "desired, wished for," and that sense of the wished-for child gives Marat its short meaning: upragniony, the one hoped for. The origin is filed simply as other, since the name refuses a single tidy root.
The Russian story is different. After the French Revolution, the figure of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) entered Soviet naming, and the name was given to sons in honor of a revolutionary hero rather than for any meaning.
So a boy called Marat might hold a Turkic meaning and a French surname at once. One of the best-known bearers is the tennis player Marat Safin, born in Moscow in 1980 to a Tatar family, a former world number one. On a Polish class register the name reads as foreign, and it is. It has no Polish diminutive of its own. What it keeps, wherever it lands, is the old sense underneath: desired.
How many people are named Marat
1 in 33991 men in Poland is named Marat. 630 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1190 among male names.
Marat's popularity over time
4 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1099 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.
Where Marat is most popular
Marat is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Marat as a middle name
Marat is a first name for 630 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6565th, between Maor (3) and Marcellin (3).
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#6563 Manzi3
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#6564 Maor3
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#6566 Marcellin3
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#6567 Marck3