Guvanch
From the Turkmen guwanç, "pride" and "trust". Only 96 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years, so most Poles will never meet one.
Guvanch Pronunciation
What Guvanch means
Where Guvanch comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Guvanch is the Latin-letter form of the Turkmen word guwanç, which means pride and trust. The word belongs to everyday Turkmen, tied to the verb guwanmak, to take pride in someone and to rely on them. A speaker hears that sense before the name registers as a name.
The cedilla in guwanç marks a sound close to the cz in Polish czas. Move the name into an alphabet without that letter and the ending flattens to -ch. The Polish digraph cz and that cedilla point at one consonant. So guwanç is written Guvanch.
Turkmenistan sits far from the Vistula, and on a Polish class register the name reads as an arrival from elsewhere. Its meaning still crosses over cleanly. In Polish the two words are duma and zaufanie.
How many people are named Guvanch
1 in 222356 men in Poland is named Guvanch. 96 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3539 among male names.