Or
A Slavic name meaning "light". Barely used in Poland: only about 300 people carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and it lands on boys and girls alike, though it leans a bit more male.
Or Pronunciation
Or is pronounced OR (/ɔr/).
What Or means
Where Or comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Or is barely there on the page, two letters and done. It comes from the Slavic layer of European names, and it has settled most firmly among Jewish families. There the reading is clear: light. The Polish word for that is światło.
No diminutive trails after it. There is no longer form waiting to be grown into, no cross-gender twin, nothing to shorten. A name this small keeps its shape wherever it goes.
The sense of light rides with the Jewish reading of the name, where the same small sound means exactly that. In Hebrew, אור spells out that word. On a Polish class register, Or arrives before almost everyone, high in the alphabet and already complete. Teachers read it once and have it. Whatever else changes, the meaning holds at światło, light.
How many people are named Or
1 in 96154 men in Poland is named Or. 312 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1711 among male names.
Or's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Or as a middle name
Or is a first name for 312 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1568th, between Olech (29) and Osvaldo (29).
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