Zaur
About 360 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been recorded with it this century: a name most Poles will never meet. At root it means "strong, steadfast".
Zaur Pronunciation
Zaur is pronounced ZAH-oor (/ˈzaur/).
What Zaur means
Where Zaur comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zaur belongs to the North Caucasus. Among Ossetians, Chechens, Ingush and Circassians it has passed from father to son for generations, and Russian-language records fixed the form in Cyrillic as Заур.
The etymology is argued over. One reading traces the name to Persian Zāvar, a word tied to stronghold and resistance, which sits close to the meaning carried here: strong, steadfast. In Polish that idea surfaces as silny wojownik, a strong warrior, a boy expected to hold his ground.
A Polish teacher reading Zaur from a class register might pause on the spelling before the boy answers. The name has no imieniny of its own in the Polish calendar, so its bearer keeps whatever date his family marks. It stays a masculine name, rare here, still tasting of the mountains it came from. And its short meaning stays plain: strong, steadfast.
How many people are named Zaur
1 in 59295 men in Poland is named Zaur. 360 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1578 among male names.