Yashar
Fewer than a hundred Polish men carry it and no boys have been given it in recent years, so most Poles have never met one. The root is Hebrew, meaning "living" or "he lives".
Yashar Pronunciation
What Yashar means
Where Yashar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yashar comes to Polish name lists with a Hebrew origin and a plain meaning: living, he lives. The name travels with a Turkish association, and there the form Yaşar sits close by. In Turkish, Yaşar means "he lives," from the verb yaşamak, to live. Two languages reach the same idea by different roots.
The meaning stays simple. A child called Yashar is given a word about life itself, żyjący in Polish. There are no diminutives to soften it and no variant to stand in for it. The name arrives whole.
Picture a class register on the first day of term. A teacher reads Yashar aloud, and the name holds its place among more familiar entries. The Polish calendar has no name-day slot for it, so an imieniny would be a family's own choice rather than a fixed date. What does not change is the meaning: living, he lives.
How many people are named Yashar
1 in 355770 men in Poland is named Yashar. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4788 among male names.
Yashar as a middle name
Yashar is a first name for 60 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3030th, between Yamid (11) and Yi (11).
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#3028 Witalij11
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#3029 Yamid11
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#3030 Yashar11
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#3031 Yi11
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#3032 Yilmaz11