Shalva
Almost never given today, and held by only around 480 people in Poland, nearly all of them men. Its Slavic root carries the sense of peace, or tranquility.
Shalva Pronunciation
What Shalva means
Where Shalva comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shalva belongs to the Slavic family of names, and its sense reaches back to the idea of peace. In Polish that meaning sits close to two everyday words, spokój and pokój, tranquility and peace, which a Polish reader recognizes at once. The origin recorded for it is simply Slavic, without a fixed regional home.
The name arrives without the usual retinue. It has no standard diminutive, no cross-gender twin, no saint fixed to a calendar square. No calendar claims it. That bareness gives it a plain, unhurried quality.
Picture a name-day list at the urząd, columns of familiar entries, and then Shalva, unattached to any single day. A child called Shalva goes by a word for calm rather than a family of nicknames. The meaning stays legible: peace, spokój, the stillness the Slavic root points toward.
How many people are named Shalva
1 in 45129 men in Poland is named Shalva. 476 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1353 among male names.