Yaǧmur
A Turkish name meaning "rain". In Poland it stays rare: only about two dozen women carry it, and no girls have been given it in recent years.
Yaǧmur Pronunciation
Yaǧmur is pronounced ih-AHǦ-moor (/ɨˈaǧmur/).
What Yaǧmur means
Where Yaǧmur comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yağmur comes from Turkish, where the word means rain. The name travels with its plain sense intact. A child called Yağmur bears the ordinary Turkish noun for the water that falls from the sky. In Turkey it goes to girls and boys alike, one of a small set of weather names drawn from everyday vocabulary.
The spelling holds a letter Polish readers will not recognize. That soft g, the ğ, is nearly silent in Turkish speech, stretching the vowel before it rather than sounding on its own. So the name lands closer to "yaa-mur" than the written form suggests.
Rain is short. In a country where summer can bake the land dry, rain reads as relief and as plenty, the thing crops wait for. The association is old and practical, tied to harvest more than to melancholy.
On a Polish class register, Yağmur would sit among the Zuzannas and stand out at once. It has no Polish diminutive and no local variant. The name stays what it is: the Turkish word for deszcz, rain.
How many people are named Yaǧmur
1 in 1024720 women in Poland is named Yaǧmur. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9493 among female names.
Yaǧmur as a middle name
Yaǧmur is a first name for 22 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5359th, between Yanira (3) and Yennefer (3).
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#5357 Yajaira3
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#5358 Yanira3
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#5359 Yaǧmur3
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#5360 Yennefer3
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#5361 Yeraldin3