Khatia
Just 111 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Georgian name meaning "icon", and no girls have been given it in recent years.
Khatia Pronunciation
Khatia is pronounced KKHAHT-yah (/ˈkxatja/).
What Khatia means
Where Khatia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Khatia begins in Georgia. The name grows from the Georgian word "khati," which means icon, the painted and blessed image kept in the churches of the Caucasus. Its short meaning stays close to that word. The sense held near worship.
The best known bearer is Khatia Buniatishvili, a pianist born in Tbilisi in 1987. She has carried the Georgian spelling onto concert stages across Europe. The opening "kh" is a sound Polish readers meet in few first names.
In Poland the name sits near Katarzyna, and some read it as "czysta," pure. That reading came later. The sense of pure belongs to Katarzyna. It settled on Khatia by resemblance of sound. The Georgian root points elsewhere, to "khati," the icon.
How many people are named Khatia
1 in 203098 women in Poland is named Khatia. 111 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3238 among female names.