Ziya
Just 36 men in Poland carry it, and none were born last year: most Poles will never meet a Ziya. The name comes from Arabic and Turkish, where it means "light" or "splendour".
Ziya Pronunciation
Ziya is pronounced ZHIH-ah (/ˈʑɨa/).
What Ziya means
Where Ziya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ziya comes from Arabic, where ḍiyāʾ names light and splendour. Turkish speakers took it in and made it their own. Among Turks and Arabs it belongs to men, and the meaning stays close to its root: brightness, a shining.
One bearer fixes it in history. Ziya Gökalp, the Turkish sociologist and poet who died in 1924, carried it through his writing on nation and culture. His books still sit on university reading lists.
Picture a Turkish family filling in an official form at the urząd. The clerk reads Ziya and asks how to spell it. Short name, four letters, no diminutive. It offers no Polish variant and no cross-gender form.
The light in Ziya leans toward splendour, the brightness a lamp or a face can hold. That sense is Arabic and old. A child called Ziya wears a word for radiance.
How many people are named Ziya
1 in 592950 men in Poland is named Ziya. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6672 among male names.
Ziya as a middle name
Ziya is a first name for 36 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3456th, between Zimowit (9) and Żytomir (9).
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#3454 Ziemomysł9
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#3455 Zimowit9
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#3456 Ziya9
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#3457 Żytomir9
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#3458 Aayan8