Nugzari
The fewer than a hundred men who carry it were all born last century: no boy has taken it since 2000. It reads as golden light, and in Poland it stays a name for men only.
Nugzari Pronunciation
Nugzari is pronounced noog-ZAH-ree (/nugˈzari/).
What Nugzari means
Where Nugzari comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nugzari sets the Georgian nominative ending -i on Nugzar, a name Georgian tradition traces to Iranian roots. One etymology reads it as a compound of Arabic nur, meaning light, joined to Persian zar, meaning gold. That gives the short meaning recorded here, golden light.
The gold is literal. Persian zar names the metal itself, the root behind older regional words for coin and wealth. Set next to nur, the light, the name reads as brightness with worth attached. Georgian usage also glosses it as skarb and książę, treasure and prince, the second sense drawn from the men the name was given to. The related Georgian name Nodar grows from the same Iranian stem.
On a Polish form at the urząd, Nugzari would sit among names the calendar holds no imieniny for, a guest in the register. The root behind it still points where it always did, to gold and to light.
How many people are named Nugzari
1 in 229529 men in Poland is named Nugzari. 93 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3616 among male names.