Malkhaz
A Hebrew name almost no one in Poland has met: around 470 men carry it, and it goes to no newborns now. At root it points to youth and good looks.
Malkhaz Pronunciation
Malkhaz is pronounced MAHLK-khahs (/ˈmalkxas/).
What Malkhaz means
Where Malkhaz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Malkhaz comes to Poland carrying a Hebrew root, melech, the word for king. The Polish reading holds onto that older idea: władca ludzi, one who rules over people. It is a name built around authority, and that is the sense the grounding keeps.
The same name later settled in Georgia, where it belongs to men. Behind the Name records Malkhaz as a Georgian masculine name. There the meaning drifted toward something softer. The sense of beautiful, elegant, youthful was attached later, closer to how a person looks than to how a king is crowned.
In a Polish class register the name would stand out at once, foreign and infrequent. So two readings live inside it. One names a ruler of people, straight from the Hebrew root. The other points back to a face thought lovely and young.
How many people are named Malkhaz
1 in 45129 men in Poland is named Malkhaz. 473 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1363 among male names.