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Nizami

Just 83 Polish men carry it, all of them male, and no boy has been given it since at least 2000. The name means "order, arrangement", and most Poles have never met someone who has it.

Nizami Pronunciation

Nizami is pronounced nyee-ZAH-mee (/ɲiˈzami/).

Alive in 2025
83
National rank
#3898

What Nizami means

Where Nizami comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

The name Nizami reaches Polish records with a double label. Its origin is filed as Slavic, while its cultural association points toward Arabic. The meaning given is plain: order, arrangement.

That sense of order sits close to the Arabic word nizam, which names a system or an arrangement of parts. A child called Nizami holds a word about things kept in their place.

The best-known bearer is Nizami Ganjavi, the poet who lived from about 1141 to 1209 and wrote the Khamsa, a set of five long poems. His pen-name became the name people remember. In a Polish class register today, Nizami would stand apart from the Jans and Zofias, one entry that turns a head at roll call.

There are no diminutives on record, no softened variant to fall back on. The name stays as it is, four syllables, no shortcut. What it offers is the short meaning itself: order, arrangement.

How many people are named Nizami

1 in 257183 men in Poland is named Nizami. 83 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3898 among male names.

People with the name Nizami 2019 → 2025
83 +75 since 2019
2020 10 +2
2021 14 +4
2022 29 +15
2023 53 +24
2024 70 +17
2025 83 +13

Nizami as a middle name

Nizami is a first name for 83 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6670th, between Nizam (3) and Nizamuddin (3).

As a first name
83
As a middle name
3
first name 97% middle name 3%

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