Dilshod
Persian at root: *dil*, heart, and *shad*, glad, read together as a happy heart. Fewer than 250 men in Poland carry it, all of them men, so most Poles have never met one.
Dilshod Pronunciation
What Dilshod means
Where Dilshod comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dilshod arrives in Polish from far outside the Slavic world. Its two halves are Persian: dil, meaning heart, and shod, a form of shād, meaning glad. Read together they give happy heart, the meaning printed beside the Polish szczęśliwe serce.
The Persian dil runs through a wide belt of names and languages, from Iran across Tajikistan and into Uzbek, where Dilshod is a common boy's name and appears in Cyrillic as Дилшод. The same root sits inside the sister form Dilshad. In classical Persian verse dil names both the heart and the feeling inside it. A short word does heavy work.
On a Polish class register the name stands apart from the Kacpers and Bartoszes, and an official at the urząd may ask twice how it is spelled. That difference is the point of it. The name holds its Persian shape, and it holds its sense: a heart that is glad, szczęśliwe serce.
How many people are named Dilshod
1 in 86073 men in Poland is named Dilshod. 248 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1949 among male names.