Yerlan
Just 68 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it this century, so meeting one would stick with you. The name reads as "brave man, hero".
Yerlan Pronunciation
Yerlan is pronounced ih-ER-lahn (/ɨˈɛrlan/).
What Yerlan means
Where Yerlan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yerlan comes from the Kazakh steppe, and in Polish its meaning reads „odważny mężczyzna, bohater", a brave man and a hero. The classification here is simply "other," a name that grew outside the Greek and Latin stock most Polish names draw on. The Turkic root "er" means man or warrior, and the ending "-lan" is often linked to "arslan," the word for lion. So the name gathers a fighter and a lion into one short name.
In Kazakhstan it stays common among boys. There is no diminutive recorded here, no variant, no feminine pair. That bareness fits it. The meaning does the work.
On a class register at a Warsaw school, Yerlan sits among Polish names without difficulty. A teacher reads it as it is spelled. There is no name-day to mark it, so an imieniny passes it by. The word behind it stays plain: er, the man, the hero.
How many people are named Yerlan
1 in 313915 men in Poland is named Yerlan. 68 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4415 among male names.