Kakhaber
The name means "monk from Kakheti," pointing far from Poland toward the Caucasus. Only about 400 men here carry it and no boys were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Kakhaber Pronunciation
Kakhaber is pronounced kahk-KHAH-ber (/kakˈxabɛr/).
What Kakhaber means
Where Kakhaber comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kakhaber comes from Georgia, from the country's eastern hills rather than from any Slavic or Latin root. The name binds a person to Kakheti, the wine region east of Tbilisi, and the recorded sense of the name is "monk from Kakheti." That monastic reading looks like a later gloss laid over a regional name, a way of tying the bearer to the churches and vineyards of that land rather than a literal birth certificate of the word.
The name is Georgian through and through. It sits in a family of masculine names that point back to Kakheti as a place and an identity.
One documented bearer makes the name easy to check. Kakhaber Kaladze, born in 1978, played football for Milan and later became mayor of Tbilisi. His full given name is Kakhaber, and Georgians have carried it for centuries before him.
On a Polish class register, Kakhaber would stand out at once. It arrives with no Polish name-day, no local diminutive, no Slavic cousin waiting in the same room. What it brings instead is a fixed address. The name means, in its plainest reading, a monk from Kakheti.
How many people are named Kakhaber
1 in 51686 men in Poland is named Kakhaber. 413 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1461 among male names.