Paata
Its meaning is a modest one: "little" or "small". Fewer than 600 men in Poland carry it and none were given it last year, so most Poles have never met a Paata.
Paata Pronunciation
Paata is pronounced pah-AH-tah (/paˈata/).
What Paata means
Where Paata comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Paata is a Georgian name. It grew from the Georgian adjective patara, which means little or small, and the short form kept only the opening sound of that longer word. In Polish the sense is plain: mały. The origin sits outside the Latin and Slavic families that fill most Polish name registers, in a language of the Caucasus with its own alphabet.
One well known bearer complicates the meaning nicely. Paata Burchuladze, the Georgian opera bass born in 1955, has sung at La Scala and the Met with one of the deepest voices in the repertoire. A name that says "small" rests on a very large man. That gap between the word and the person is part of what a name can do.
There is no diminutive to add here, because Paata began as one already. A Polish teacher reading it from a class register might pause on the doubled a. The vowels are simple to say. What stays underneath the sound is patara: little, small, mały.
How many people are named Paata
1 in 39167 men in Poland is named Paata. 545 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1276 among male names.