Otari
A Georgian name meaning warrior or hero, filed simply as "other" because it arrived from outside Poland's Slavic and Latin stock and kept its Caucasian sound. Only about 200 men here carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Otari Pronunciation
Otari is pronounced o-TAH-ree (/ɔˈtari/).
What Otari means
Where Otari comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Otari comes to Poland from Georgia, where it names men and means warrior or hero. The Polish sense holds the same: wojownik, bohater. Its origin is filed simply as "other," a name that arrived from outside the familiar Slavic and Latin stock, keeping its Caucasian sound intact.
In Georgia the name has long belonged to real men. One was Otar Ioseliani, the Georgian filmmaker whose work traveled far past Tbilisi. He died in 2023. The name sits in that world of Georgian speech, spelled ოთარი, and it does not soften itself for foreign mouths.
On a Polish class register, Otari would stand out among the Jakubs and Szymons. It asks to be learned. No established name-day marks it here, and no diminutive has grown up around it, so it stays whole.
What it means is plain enough. A warrior, a hero, wojownik.
How many people are named Otari
1 in 97918 men in Poland is named Otari. 218 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2114 among male names.
Otari as a middle name
Otari is a first name for 218 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8477th, between Osita (2) and Otávio (2).
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#8475 Osborne2
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#8476 Osita2
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#8477 Otari2
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#8478 Otávio2
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#8479 Oualid2