The baby name Polat is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced po-LAT (IPA: /poˈlat/).
Polat is Turkish in Origin.
The baby name Polat is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced po-LAT (IPA: /poˈlat/).
Polat is Turkish in Origin.
Polat is a Turkish masculine given name and surname meaning “steel.” It descends from Persian fulâd/polâd (Farsi: فولاد/پولاد), ‘steel,’ borrowed into Ottoman and modern Turkish; while today çelik is the everyday word, polat survives as a poetic or onomastic term connoting toughness, resilience, and steadfast strength. Cognates spread widely across Turkic languages and neighboring tongues.
In Ottoman literature, polat commonly described blades and armor, which helped the word develop as a praise epithet and later as a personal name. In contemporary Turkey it remains in steady but moderate use, with added visibility from the TV character Polat Alemdar. Close variants include Azerbaijani Polad, Kazakh/Kyrgyz/Tatar Bolat, Uzbek Pulat, Russian Bulat (via Turkic), and Arabic/Persian/Urdu Fuladh/Fulâd; related spellings Pulat and Polad appear in Central Asia and the Caucasus. All retain the core meaning of ‘steel’ and its metaphor of unbending strength.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM | Boys | 0 | #31 | 6 | 614 |
| AZ | 0 | #42 | 2 | 706 | |
| AL | 0 | #75 | 2 | 2,372 | |
| MD | Boys | 0 | #81 | 1 | 756 |
| AF | Girls | 0 | #94 | 1 | 2,402 |
| GE | Boys | 0 | #105 | 6 | 2,055 |
| GE | Girls | 0 | #108 | 1 | 1,564 |
| KW | 0 | #120 | 2 | 5,216 | |
| AZ | Boys | 0 | #128 | 4 | 1,400 |
| IQ | 0 | #131 | 3 | 3,533 | |
| JO | 0 | #139 | 2 | 2,158 | |
| KZ | Boys | 0 | #203 | 89 | 6,578 |
| BG | Boys | 0 | #205 | 15 | 3,850 |
| DK | 0 | #206 | 1 | 5,198 | |
| SI | Boys | 0 | #211 | 1 | 3,402 |
| LU | Boys | 0 | #219 | 2 | 4,970 |
| PS | 0 | #226 | 1 | 5,692 | |
| AL | Girls | 0 | #227 | 1 | 4,141 |
| JP | Girls | 0 | #251 | 1 | 6,592 |
| GR | Boys | 0 | #266 | 8 | 6,912 |
| AF | Boys | 0 | #274 | 1 | 3,535 |
| TR | 0 | #288 | 6,729 | 19,440 | |
| AL | Boys | 0 | #296 | 8 | 5,122 |
| CZ | Boys | 0 | #305 | 1 | 6,530 |
| SA | 0 | #311 | 2 | 10,560 | |
| DK | Boys | 0 | #315 | 11 | 7,401 |
| DK | Girls | 0 | #329 | 1 | 7,429 |
| KZ | Girls | 0 | #329 | 4 | 5,862 |
| CN | Boys | 0 | #331 | 1 | 9,639 |
| PL | Boys | 0 | #340 | 1 | 6,459 |
| JO | Boys | 0 | #357 | 21 | 7,057 |
| YE | 0 | #366 | 16 | 8,639 | |
| France | Boys | 2018 | #386 | 4 | 2,908 |
| Austria | Boys | 0 | #405 | 38 | 2,180 |
| EG | 0 | #412 | 1 | 6,387 | |
| RU | Boys | 0 | #435 | 71 | 12,621 |
| IQ | Boys | 0 | #459 | 216 | 13,071 |
| SD | Boys | 0 | #463 | 4 | 10,523 |
| IQ | Girls | 0 | #493 | 12 | 11,303 |
| LY | 0 | #511 | 25 | 12,703 | |
| RU | Girls | 0 | #522 | 2 | 11,913 |
| PS | Boys | 0 | #532 | 17 | 10,655 |
| PS | Girls | 0 | #547 | 1 | 10,981 |
| IR | Boys | 0 | #559 | 7 | 10,162 |
| BH | 0 | #585 | 3 | 17,937 | |
| IL | Boys | 0 | #598 | 10 | 10,983 |
| BD | Boys | 0 | #605 | 1 | 10,045 |
| LB | 0 | #643 | 16 | 13,263 | |
| SY | 0 | #697 | 32 | 11,684 | |
| CL | Boys | 0 | #700 | 1 | 13,390 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #736 | 8 | 18,093 |
| TN | 0 | #752 | 78 | 13,765 | |
| KW | Boys | 0 | #803 | 4 | 18,755 |
| Germany | Boys | 0 | #816 | 137 | 5,697 |
| EG | Boys | 0 | #862 | 25 | 15,035 |
| MA | 0 | #866 | 264 | 20,986 | |
| NL | Boys | 0 | #866 | 86 | 5,873 |
| OM | Boys | 0 | #869 | 13 | 17,948 |
| DZ | 0 | #899 | 279 | 20,130 | |
| Spain | Boys | 0 | #920 | 11 | 5,610 |
| PE | Boys | 0 | #926 | 1 | 14,506 |
| NL | Girls | 0 | #944 | 12 | 5,933 |
| NG | Boys | 0 | #1,001 | 1 | 16,906 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #1,014 | 1 | 25,931 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,082 | 11 | 22,615 |
| CO | Girls | 0 | #1,152 | 1 | 16,140 |
| MY | Boys | 0 | #1,182 | 1 | 25,439 |
| IT | Boys | 0 | #1,449 | 23 | 10,046 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,520 | 95 | 28,008 |
Polat is popular in 50 countries — most recent births per country:
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