Temirlan
The name means "iron" and shares a root with Timur. In Poland only about 80 men carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Temirlan Pronunciation
Temirlan is pronounced te-MEER-lahn (/tɛˈmirlan/).
What Temirlan means
Where Temirlan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Temirlan starts from a hard root. In Turkic languages the word temir means iron, the same root heard in Turkish demir and Tatar timer. The name sets that iron before a second element, and the ending -lan is often tied to arslan, the Turkic word for lion, worn down over time.
The name also stands near a famous bearer. Timur, the fourteenth-century conqueror known in Europe as Tamerlane, ruled from Samarkand and died in 1405. His name grows from the same iron root, and Temirlan reads as a close cousin of it.
The meaning is plain: iron. In a Polish class register a Temirlan can land between Antoni and Zofia, and the teacher learns to hit that hard T at the front. The spelling stays steady on an official form at the urząd, five syllables that do not soften. What the name gives back, in the end, is temir, iron.
How many people are named Temirlan
1 in 263533 men in Poland is named Temirlan. 81 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3953 among male names.