Temur
Its meaning is plain: iron. Fewer than 500 men in Poland carry it, and it's given less with each passing year, so most Poles have never met one.
Temur Pronunciation
Temur is pronounced TE-moor (/ˈtɛmur/).
What Temur means
Where Temur comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Temur means iron. Behind the name stands temür, an old word shared across the Turkic and Mongolic languages, where it named the metal plainly and without ceremony.
The most storied man to bear a form of it was Timur, the fourteenth-century Central Asian conqueror whom Europe came to call Tamerlane. His name meant iron as well, and from his capital at Samarkand his armies pushed as far as Delhi and Ankara. So the sense of hardness in Temur is not decorative. It sits in the root.
A boy called Temur today carries a word older than the man who made it famous. In Poland the name looks foreign, and it is, arriving from the steppe rather than from Latin or Greek. Its meaning does not soften with translation. Temur is żelazo, iron, the same on the tongue of a khan and on an official form at the urząd.
How many people are named Temur
1 in 46304 men in Poland is named Temur. 461 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1377 among male names.
Temur's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Temur as a middle name
Temur is a first name for 461 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6915th, between Temple (3) and Temuujin (3).
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#6913 Temel3
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#6914 Temple3
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#6915 Temur3
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#6916 Temuujin3
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#6917 Tengis3