Vepkhvia
The name means "tiger". Only 135 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it this century, so most Poles will never meet one.
Vepkhvia Pronunciation
What Vepkhvia means
Where Vepkhvia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vepkhvia comes from the Georgian word vepkhvi, meaning tiger. The name gives a person that animal outright, with no softening. In older Georgian verse the big cat stands for courage and a fighter's nerve.
The word anchors Georgia's national poem. Shota Rustaveli titled his twelfth-century epic Vepkhistqaosani, known in English as The Knight in the Panther's Skin. Lines from it are still recited in Georgian schools. Anyone who knows that poem hears the tiger in Vepkhvia.
The meaning is plain. A boy named Vepkhvia is named for the tiger, tygrys in Polish. On a Polish class register the name would sit far from the Piotrs and Jakubs, and a teacher might pause before the first syllable. The origin stays exactly where it began, in vepkhvi.
How many people are named Vepkhvia
1 in 158120 men in Poland is named Vepkhvia. 135 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2855 among male names.