Nukri
Nukri comes from the Georgian noun ნუკრი, a fawn, a young deer. In Georgia it goes to women and men alike, but in Poland the 226 people who carry it are all men.
Nukri Pronunciation
Nukri is pronounced NOOK-ree (/ˈnukri/).
What Nukri means
Where Nukri comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nukri comes from the Georgian noun ნუკრი, and it names a fawn, a young deer not yet steady on its legs. Georgian usage stretches the word past the deer, to the young of the chamois and the goitered gazelle, so the name reaches toward every small animal of the mountain slopes. In Polish the meaning lands cleanly as jelonek.
In Georgia the name is given to men and women alike. A second line of origin runs back to the Persian noqre, meaning silver, though the fawn is the reading most speakers recognize.
On a Polish class register Nukri would sit unfamiliar, five letters a teacher might pause over before reading them aloud. The meaning needs no gloss for a child who has watched a deer step out at the forest edge. Nukri stays small on purpose. Its meaning is a fawn, jelonek, and nothing grander is asked of it.
How many people are named Nukri
1 in 94452 men in Poland is named Nukri. 226 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2071 among male names.