Yaşar
A Turkish name meaning "he lives". Only about 60 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years, so meeting one would stick with you.
Yaşar Pronunciation
Yaşar is pronounced ih-AH-şahr (/ɨˈaşar/).
What Yaşar means
Where Yaşar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yaşar begins with a Turkish verb, yaşamak, to live. The whole name states a wish as if it were already fact: he lives. Turkish naming has long favored words like this, a hope pressed into a single present-tense form.
The name travels light. It has no diminutive and no separate feminine version, so a boy named Yaşar meets the same six letters on a school register that he will later sign on a form at the urząd.
The best-known bearer is Yaşar Kemal, born in 1923 on the Çukurova plain in southern Turkey. His novel İnce Memed found readers in dozens of languages, Polish among them. Kemal was nominated for the Nobel and died in 2015, and his name kept its meaning wherever it went.
Underneath everything the word stays plain. He lives, living, held in the present tense that the Turkish verb keeps.
How many people are named Yaşar
1 in 355770 men in Poland is named Yaşar. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4789 among male names.
Yaşar as a middle name
Yaşar is a first name for 60 men in Poland and a middle name for another 12, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2874th, between Wisław (12) and Yusein (12).
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#2872 Vuong12
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#2873 Wisław12
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#2874 Yaşar12
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#2875 Yusein12
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#2876 Zack12