Nader
Fewer than 70 Poles carry Nader, all of them men, and most people here will never meet one. Its Arabic root means much the same: rare, unique.
Nader Pronunciation
Nader is pronounced NAH-der (/ˈnadɛr/).
What Nader means
Where Nader comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nader comes into Polish from Arabic, where نادر means rare, precious, hard to come by. Its origin sits outside the Slavic and Latin families, filed simply as other. The short meaning stays close to that Arabic sense: rare, unique.
History hands the name a famous holder in Nader Shah, who ruled Persia in the eighteenth century and died in 1747. He rose as a soldier before he took a crown. His name and the adjective behind it share the same Arabic root.
In a Polish class register, Nader sits apart from the Kacpers around it. That is unusual here. The name carries no Polish diminutive of its own and no separate feminine form. At the urząd, it is written plainly, five letters. The rarity is the point.
How many people are named Nader
1 in 309365 men in Poland is named Nader. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4360 among male names.
Nader as a middle name
Nader is a first name for 69 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2543rd, between Myles (14) and Naresh (14).
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#2541 Munyaradzi14
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#2542 Myles14
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#2543 Nader14
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#2544 Naresh14
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#2545 Naser14