Sedat
Around 115 Polish men carry it, few enough that most Poles have never met one. The name holds the sense of steadfastness and loyalty, and it's given only rarely now.
Sedat Pronunciation
Sedat is pronounced SE-daht (/ˈsɛdat/).
What Sedat means
Where Sedat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sedat begins in Latin, in the adjective sedatus, meaning calm or settled. That word is the past participle of sedare, to soothe or bring to rest, and it hands the name its Polish reading: spokój, ład, peace and order.
The name found its real home in Turkish. There Sedat became a man's name, common across the twentieth century, and readers came to hear in it steadfastness and loyalty. That sense of loyalty was attached later, layered onto the older Latin quiet rather than drawn straight from it.
Two meanings sit in one short word. One is the Latin stillness of sedatus. The other is the Turkish idea of a person who holds firm.
Picture a class register in a Polish school, a foreign first name printed among the Jakubs and Zofias. Sedat would read as calm itself. It is calm made into a name. And a child carrying it holds a Latin root for order and a Turkish word for staying put.
How many people are named Sedat
1 in 185619 men in Poland is named Sedat. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3166 among male names.
Sedat as a middle name
Sedat is a first name for 115 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 94/6 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4029th, between Scot (7) and Semko (7).
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#4027 Samuele7
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#4028 Scot7
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#4029 Sedat7
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#4030 Semko7
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#4031 Seun7