Givi
From the Persian Giv, meaning "hero" or "warrior". Only about 355 men in Poland carry it, and no boys were born with it last year: most Poles will never meet one.
Givi Pronunciation
What Givi means
Where Givi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Givi traces back to the Persian name Giv, a warrior in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the eleventh-century epic that gathered Iran's old kings and champions into verse. Giv fights across many of its battles. The short meaning carried into modern use is plain: hero.
The added -i turns Giv into Givi, a form that took hold well beyond Persia. In Georgia it became an ordinary man's name, borne by soldiers, drivers, and grandfathers named on a saint's day. That spread is the real history of the name, an old epic hero settling into common life.
For a Polish family the name reads as foreign, and that is part of what it offers. On a class register in Warsaw, Givi would stand among the Jakubs and Szymons. Its meaning stays legible though: hero, in Polish bohater or wojownik.
Short. The champion was Giv, and the meaning is hero.
How many people are named Givi
1 in 60130 men in Poland is named Givi. 355 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1592 among male names.