Waqas
Just 23 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. It's an Arabic name meaning warrior or fighter.
Waqas Pronunciation
What Waqas means
Where Waqas comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Waqas arrives in Polish paperwork from Arabic, and its meaning is plain: warrior, fighter, wojownik in Polish. The name has no diminutive and no variant to soften it. It stands as it is.
The most documented bearer is Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas, a seventh-century companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a military commander. His reputation as a soldier kept the name Waqqas in circulation, and Waqas reaches back to that older form. The sense of a fighter clings to a remembered man, a commander, rather than to legend or verse.
On a school register in Kraków or Wrocław, Waqas marks a family with roots outside Poland's Slavic naming stock. The origin is filed simply as other, which is honest. It refuses a neat Latin or Slavic pedigree. What the name gives instead is one clear word: wojownik.
How many people are named Waqas
1 in 928095 men in Poland is named Waqas. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9191 among male names.
Waqas as a middle name
Waqas is a first name for 23 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5101st, between Wangelis (5) and Washington (5).
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#5099 Waheed5
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#5100 Wangelis5
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#5101 Waqas5
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#5102 Washington5
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#5103 Wasilij5