Tural
The name carries the sense of "to be alive" or "eternal". Only a few hundred men in Poland go by it, and no boys were given it last year, so running into one would stick with you.
Tural Pronunciation
Tural is pronounced TOO-rahl (/ˈtural/).
What Tural means
Where Tural comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tural is not a Polish name by birth. It comes to Poland from the Turkic world, most often from Azerbaijan, where it is given to boys and understood to mean something close to "alive" or "eternal." The root sits in Old Turkic vocabulary tied to living and enduring, and Azerbaijani parents still pick it today. In Polish the sense is usually rendered as mężny, silny, długowieczny.
That reading grew from the idea of long life. A name meaning "to live" slides easily toward strength, since a person who endures is imagined as sturdy.
On a Polish class register, Tural would stand out among the Jakubs and Szymons. It has no Polish name-day, no diminutive worn smooth by generations here. A boy named Tural in Gdańsk or Wrocław carries a word from another language into a Polish form at the urząd, where the clerk writes it exactly as given. The name has no variants to fall back on. It is short. What it holds is the Turkic idea of living on, which Polish speakers meet as silny and długowieczny.
How many people are named Tural
1 in 64103 men in Poland is named Tural. 333 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1660 among male names.