Polad
The name carries the meaning "steel". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 40 men hold it, all of them male, and no boys have been given it this century.
Polad Pronunciation
Polad is pronounced PO-laht (/ˈpɔlat/).
What Polad means
Where Polad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Polad means steel. The name goes back to Persian pulad, also written fulad, the word for forged steel. It moved into Turkic languages as polat and polad. On a Polish baby-name list it sits under the label "other", an origin that reaches past Slavic ground toward Iran and the Caucasus.
Steel is the literal sense here, stal in Polish. Some names gain their meaning late. Katarzyna picked up "pure" long after the name was first used, a story added on top. Polad did the opposite and named the metal from the start.
In Azerbaijan the form is a living first name. The singer and diplomat Polad Bülbüloğlu carries it, born in Baku in 1945. In Poland the name has no name-day slot and no diminutive on record.
Read from a class register, Polad makes a teacher pause. The word behind it is stal.
How many people are named Polad
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Polad. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6380 among male names.