Lasha
The name means "light". Fewer than 1,300 men in Poland carry it and it barely turns up among newborns now: rare enough that most Poles have never met one, and given only to men.
Lasha Pronunciation
What Lasha means
Where Lasha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lasha comes from Georgia, in the Caucasus, and the word behind it means light. The Georgian chronicles trace it to Abkhaz, where a-lasha meant light, and they gloss the royal name as "illuminator of the world." So the sense sits close to the origin here, unlike names where a bright meaning is fastened on much later. What a Polish family gains is short, two syllables, and clear.
The name has a documented bearer. Giorgi IV of Georgia, who ruled from 1213 to 1223, was called Lasha, and the Bagrationi dynasty kept the word attached to him across the medieval Georgian court. That is a real historical anchor, not a legend dressed up as etymology.
In Poland the name arrives without a fixed name-day and without Polish diminutives of its own. A teacher reading Lasha from a class register in Kraków meets a spelling that stays the same in every case, easy to say and hard to mistake. It stands a little apart from the Marcins and Kacpers around it. The meaning travels intact from Tbilisi to any urząd form: światło, light.
How many people are named Lasha
1 in 17159 men in Poland is named Lasha. 1,244 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #870 among male names.