Zaman
From Arabic, where it means "time". Just 22 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them men, so most Poles have never met one.
Zaman Pronunciation
Zaman is pronounced ZAH-mahn (/ˈzaman/).
What Zaman means
Where Zaman comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zaman comes from the Arabic word zamān, meaning time. In Arabic it points less to the clock and more to duration: a stretch of hours, a season, a whole age. The word is old and plain, one of those everyday terms a language leans on constantly.
The same word carries across borders. It settled into Persian, Turkish and Urdu, where zaman still means time in daily speech. In Persian and Urdu, the close relative zamana widened to mean an era and the way of the times. The name reaches Poland already fluent in several tongues, keeping its Arabic sense.
On a Polish class register, Zaman sits among the Zuzannas and Zbyszeks, unusual and easy to read. No imieniny is fixed for it in the church calendar, so a family picks its own date. For a Polish speaker the meaning lands without a dictionary. Zaman is czas, time.
How many people are named Zaman
1 in 1067309 men in Poland is named Zaman. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9500 among male names.
Zaman as a middle name
Zaman is a first name for 22 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4102nd, between Zaid (7) and Zbylut (7).
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#4100 Zahir7
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#4101 Zaid7
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#4102 Zaman7
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#4103 Zbylut7
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#4104 Zeki̇7