Avtandili
Its meaning reads "heart of the motherland". In Poland the name stays rare: only about 117 men carry it, and hardly any boys receive it these days.
Avtandili Pronunciation
What Avtandili means
Where Avtandili comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Avtandili belongs to Georgia. It is the hero of Shota Rustaveli's twelfth-century epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin, a knight who rides across the world to keep a promise made to a friend. In Georgian the final -i marks the nominative case, so Avtandil and Avtandili name the same man.
The origin sits outside the usual European families, and scholars trace its parts to Persian. The reading given here, "heart of the motherland", serce ojczyzny, reached the name through the loyalty its bearer shows in Rustaveli's verse, rather than from a single root word.
Short. Firm.
A Polish child called Avtandili would be rare on any class register. The name arrives with a whole poem behind it, one that Georgian pupils still learn by heart. Whoever holds it holds the meaning "heart of the motherland".
How many people are named Avtandili
1 in 182446 men in Poland is named Avtandili. 117 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3119 among male names.