Gurami
Filed under origin "other," a name that resists a clean root. The meaning handed down is "lion-hearted," a Georgian reading attached later. In Poland it stays rare: most Poles have never met a Gurami, and no boys were given the name last year.
Gurami Pronunciation
Gurami is pronounced goo-RAH-mee (/guˈrami/).
What Gurami means
Where Gurami comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gurami sits apart from the usual Polish name registers. Its etymological origin is filed plainly as "other," an honest label for a name that resists a single root. The short meaning handed down with it is "lion-hearted," a reading traced to Georgian. That sense was attached later, and it describes courage rather than naming where the word began.
In Polish the word travels a different road. Dictionaries record gurami only as a fish, the gourami kept in warm freshwater tanks, a labyrinth breather able to gulp air from the surface. A Polish reader meets two Guramis. One swims on an aquarium shelf. The other holds a Georgian sense of a lion's heart.
Picture a teacher working down a class register and pausing at the unfamiliar line. The name gives little away and asks to be learned. What stays fixed are the two facts on record: the origin marked "other," and the short meaning of "lion-hearted."
How many people are named Gurami
1 in 102135 men in Poland is named Gurami. 209 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2166 among male names.