Avtandil
The name means "heart of the motherland". It stays rare in Poland: around 480 men carry it and no boys have received it in recent years, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Avtandil Pronunciation
What Avtandil means
Where Avtandil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Avtandil is a guest name in Poland. Its origin is filed simply as other, which is honest, because it belongs to neither the Slavic nor the Latin stock that fills most Polish registers. The name comes from Georgian literature. Avtandil is the loyal knight of Shota Rustaveli's national epic "The Knight in the Panther's Skin," a poem composed around the year 1200 and still read in Georgia today.
The traditional gloss gives the name as "heart of the motherland," in Polish "serce ojczyzny." It is a reading that suits a character defined by fidelity, a man who leaves his own comfort to keep a promise made to a friend. Whether that sense sat in the name from the start or grew up around the poem, it is the meaning Georgian families pass on.
Avtandil is rare in Poland. On an official form at the urząd the name would draw a second look, then a careful spelling. For the people who carry it, the word still points back to a knight, and to the motherland his name is said to hold.
How many people are named Avtandil
1 in 44195 men in Poland is named Avtandil. 483 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1338 among male names.