Nodar
A Georgian name that reached Poland from the Caucasus, where it means "gift of god". Fewer than 300 men here carry it, so meeting one stays in the memory.
Nodar Pronunciation
Nodar is pronounced NO-dahr (/ˈnɔdar/).
What Nodar means
Where Nodar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nodar comes to Poland from far outside the Slavic world. It is a Georgian man's name, carried in the Caucasus for generations before it turned up on any Polish form. Its meaning is given plainly: gift of god, in Polish dar boży.
Georgia kept the name alive through its writers and its athletes. Nodar Dumbadze, one of the most widely read Georgian novelists of the twentieth century, made it familiar across the old Soviet space. A younger Nodar, the luger Kumaritashvili, is remembered for his death during training at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Two men, one name, very different lives.
On a Polish class register the name would draw a second look, rare among the Kacpers and Antonis around it. It arrived from a long way off. What it says stays simple, and old as prayer: a gift of god, dar boży.
How many people are named Nodar
1 in 72116 men in Poland is named Nodar. 296 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1757 among male names.