Otar
A Georgian name that reaches Poland rarely: its root is the Turkic *otar*, "pasture, meadow," though Polish sources read it as "warrior, hero." An Otar in a Polish classroom would stand out at once, since almost no one here has met the name.
Otar Pronunciation
Otar is pronounced O-tahr (/ˈɔtar/).
What Otar means
Where Otar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Otar comes to Poland from far to the east. It is a Georgian man's name, and its root reaches back to a Turkic word, otar, meaning pasture and meadow. The name began on grazing land. The oldest sense here is open country worked by herders.
In Georgia the name has belonged to men of standing. Otar Iosseliani, the film director who lived from 1934 to 2023, carried it into European cinema and made it known well beyond the Caucasus. It stays fairly common in Georgia, and a Polish class register with an Otar on it points toward that line.
Pasture and meadow tell you where the word started. What Polish sources give as the meaning, wojownik, bohater, a warrior and a hero, is a sense attached later, laid over the grazing ground long after the herders. Between the two readings sits one short name for a boy: Otar.
How many people are named Otar
1 in 79650 men in Poland is named Otar. 268 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1864 among male names.