Zafer
Turkish for "victory". Just 77 men in Poland carry it, and no boys got it last year: most Poles will go a lifetime without meeting a Zafer.
Zafer Pronunciation
Zafer is pronounced ZAH-fer (/ˈzafɛr/).
What Zafer means
Where Zafer comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zafer means victory. The name reached Turkish from Arabic, where ẓafar held the sense of triumph and the upper hand. Turkish kept the word and gave it to boys, and the meaning stayed direct.
In Turkey that same word names a public holiday. Zafer Bayramı, Victory Day, falls on 30 August and marks the win at Dumlupınar in 1922, the battle that decided the war of independence. A boy called Zafer shares his name with a date the whole country observes.
On a Polish class register the name sits apart from the Bartoszes and Kacpers. A teacher may pause over it once. There are no Polish diminutives to soften it and no home-grown variant, so Zafer stays Zafer. What it says in Polish is short: zwycięstwo.
How many people are named Zafer
1 in 277223 men in Poland is named Zafer. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4083 among male names.
Zafer as a middle name
Zafer is a first name for 77 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3450th, between Yuval (9) and Zdenek (9).
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#3448 Yun9
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#3449 Yuval9
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#3450 Zafer9
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#3451 Zdenek9
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#3452 Zev9