Novruz
The name carries the sense "new day", the meaning behind Nowruz. Around 60 men in Poland use it and none are being given it now, so most Poles have never met one.
Novruz Pronunciation
What Novruz means
Where Novruz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Novruz begins in Persian, where now means new and ruz means day. Put together they give the name its plain sense: new day. The word also names Nowruz, the spring festival held at the vernal equinox, kept for centuries across Iran, Azerbaijan and Central Asia. UNESCO added Nowruz to its list of intangible cultural heritage in 2009.
For the people who carry the name, that meaning sits close to the surface. A boy called Novruz is often born near the equinox, around the third week of March, when the old year turns over on the calendar. The name records a date.
In Poland it is rare. It would stand out on a school register in Warsaw, foreign next to Jan and Piotr, and it invites the question of where it came from. The answer runs back to two short Persian words and one meaning: new day.
How many people are named Novruz
1 in 355770 men in Poland is named Novruz. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4771 among male names.