Cengi̇z
A Turkish name most Poles will never meet: just 38 men carry it, and it hasn't been given to a newborn in a generation. It ties back to the title Genghis, carrying the sense of a ruler or leader.
Cengi̇z Pronunciation
Cengi̇z is pronounced TSENGİS (/t͡sɛngi̇s/).
What Cengi̇z means
Where Cengi̇z comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cengiz is the Turkish form of the name the world knows from Genghis Khan. The ruler took the title Chinggis, which scholars have connected to the Mongolian word tengis, meaning the sea. From that link comes the short meaning of Cengiz, ocean. The sense of ruler and leader, władca and przywódca in Polish, arrived with the man who held the title.
The Kyrgyz writer Cengiz Aytmatov carried the name far. His novels were translated into more than a hundred languages, and Polish readers met him as Czyngiz Ajtmatow. In Turkish, though, the spelling stays Cengiz.
The meaning points to open water. On a Polish class register the name Cengiz stands out among the Kacpers and Antonis. A boy who bears it holds a title of command and a word for the ocean at once.
How many people are named Cengi̇z
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Cengi̇z. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6325 among male names.