Pinar
A Turkish name meaning "spring" or "fountain". In Poland it's almost unheard of: around 80 people carry it, nearly all of them women, and not one newborn has been given it in years.
Pinar Pronunciation
Pinar is pronounced PEE-nahr (/ˈpinar/).
What Pinar means
Where Pinar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pinar comes straight from Turkish, where it is an everyday word before it becomes a name. A pınar is a spring. The word names the place where water rises from the ground, clear and drinkable, in the hills and villages of Anatolia. Girls have carried it for generations, so the meaning stays visible to anyone who speaks the language.
The dotless ı in Pınar marks the name as Turkish rather than borrowed. There are no diminutives, no shortened pet forms in wide use. Parents say the full root and leave it whole.
In a Polish class register the name looks unusual next to Zofia and Lena. A teacher reading it aloud might pause. The origin is easy to explain, though. It means spring or fountain, in Polish źródło, the water a village drinks.
How many people are named Pinar
1 in 285365 women in Poland is named Pinar. 81 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3945 among female names.
Pinar as a middle name
Pinar is a first name for 81 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1855th, between Orszula (16) and Quynh (16).
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#1853 Nyoman16
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#1854 Orszula16
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#1855 Pinar16
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#1856 Quynh16
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#1857 Rahel16