Oktay
A Turkish name reading "arrow leader". Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Oktay Pronunciation
Oktay is pronounced ok-TAH-ih (/ɔkˈtaɨ/).
What Oktay means
Where Oktay comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oktay is a Turkish name. In Turkish the word ok means arrow, a fact anyone can check in a Turkish dictionary. The gloss recorded for the whole name is "arrow leader." That reading of command was attached to the arrow later, turning one plain word into a small title.
It has no Polish diminutive.
There is no name-day slot for it, and no cross-gender twin either. Filed under the origin "other," Oktay sits outside the Latin and Slavic stock that fills most Polish rolls. So it reads as borrowed the moment it appears, a Turkish line set into a Polish record. A child who signs a form at the urząd writes a Turkish word for arrow, ok, and a claim to guide where it flies: arrow leader.
How many people are named Oktay
1 in 229529 men in Poland is named Oktay. 93 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3618 among male names.
Oktay as a middle name
Oktay is a first name for 93 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3374th, between Oisín (9) and Oladimeji (9).
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#3372 Nuri̇9
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#3373 Oisín9
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#3374 Oktay9
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#3375 Oladimeji9
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#3376 Olaoluwa9