Tymur
A Ukrainian name meaning "iron", barely seen in Poland before the 2020s. It's climbing now, given to more boys each recent year, though still rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Tymur Pronunciation
Tymur is pronounced TIH-moor (/ˈtɨmur/).
What Tymur means
Where Tymur comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tymur begins in the Turkic languages, where the word timür meant iron. It reached Ukrainian usage through long centuries of contact across the steppe, and today it is written Тимур in Kyiv and Tymur in Warsaw. The most documented bearer is Timur, the fourteenth-century conqueror known in the West as Tamerlane, whose name announced the metal outright.
Iron does not bend easily. That hardness sits inside the name and stays there, because Ukrainian keeps the form close to its Turkic root and Polish spells it Tymur without softening the sound. There are no home-grown diminutives here, no Polish variants to blunt the edge.
Picture a class register in a Kraków primary school. Tymur lands among names of Slavic and Latin descent, a Turkic arrival that has settled in without asking permission. The meaning does not drift. It stays what it was at the start: iron, żelazo.
How many people are named Tymur
1 in 4523 men in Poland is named Tymur. 4,726 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #499 among male names.
Tymur's popularity over time
37 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #413 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2016.
Where Tymur is most popular
Tymur is most popular in Lower Silesian, 74% above the national average (12 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+62%) and Masovian (+54%). It is least common in Lublin and Lesser Poland, 56% and 50% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian12 boys born+74%
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Łódź9 boys born+62%
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Masovian24 boys born+54%
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Silesian15 boys born+50%
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Lubusz3 boys born+37%
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West Pomeranian5 boys born+35%
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Greater Poland11 boys born+16%
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Pomeranian7 boys born+8%
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Opole2 boys born−1%
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Lesser Poland5 boys born−50%
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Lublin2 boys born−56%
Tymur as a middle name
Tymur is a first name for 4,726 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6954th, between Tuğberk (3) and Tyrese (3).
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6952
3Tuyên
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6953
3Tuğberk
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69543Tymur
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6955
3Tyrese
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6956
3Tyron