Wahyu
Barely three dozen men in Poland carry Wahyu, and it goes to no newborns: most Poles will never meet one. The name means "revelation".
Wahyu Pronunciation
Wahyu is pronounced vah-KHIH-oo (/vaˈxɨu/).
What Wahyu means
Where Wahyu comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wahyu reaches a Polish name list from far off, from the Javanese-speaking world of Indonesia. The word means revelation. In Javanese tradition it names a divine light believed to settle on a chosen person. Old court tales tell of wahyu keprabon, the revelation that marked a rightful ruler.
The word keeps deep company. Scholars connect it to the Arabic waḥy, the term for revelation, the same word used for the sending down of the Quran. A name that means objawienie in Polish sits inside a very old religious vocabulary.
Wahyu is common in Indonesia today, given to boys and girls alike. Picture it on a school register in Kraków, one Wahyu among rows of Zuzannas. It would read as foreign, and its sense would not be lost. The meaning holds wherever the name lands: revelation, objawienie, wahyu.
How many people are named Wahyu
1 in 627829 men in Poland is named Wahyu. 34 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6921 among male names.
Wahyu as a middle name
Wahyu is a first name for 34 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, a 61/39 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1896th, between Trojan (22) and Waleed (22).
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#1894 Tri22
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#1895 Trojan22
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#1896 Wahyu22
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#1897 Waleed22
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#1898 Wallace22