Archil
The name means "leader, chief". In Poland it stays rare: only around 270 men carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and it's given less and less each year.
Archil Pronunciation
Archil is pronounced AHR-kheel (/ˈarxil/).
What Archil means
Where Archil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Archil means leader, chief. The origin sits outside the familiar Latin and Greek families and is filed simply as other. There is no saint's calendar or classical god standing behind it. In Georgia, though, the name has a clear home.
It belongs to kings. Archil of Imereti, who lived from 1647 to 1713, ruled as a Georgian monarch and wrote poetry as well. An earlier Archil governed Kakheti and was killed in the eighth century, and the Georgian Church remembers him as a martyr and saint. A name meaning chief that actual rulers carried is rarer than it sounds.
On a Polish class register the name would sit alone among the Kacpers and the Antonis. It arrives without diminutives and without Polish variants, so it stays exactly as it is. The meaning stays plain too: leader, chief.
How many people are named Archil
1 in 79354 men in Poland is named Archil. 269 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1854 among male names.