Zurab
From Hebrew, carrying the sense of "red water". Only about a thousand men in Poland hold it and none were recorded among last year's newborns, so meeting one stays memorable.
Zurab Pronunciation
Zurab is pronounced ZOO-rahp (/ˈzurap/).
What Zurab means
Where Zurab comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zurab arrives in Poland as a guest. The name belongs more to the Caucasus than to the banks of the Vistula, yet its record is plain enough: the meaning given is "red water," czerwona woda in Polish, and the origin is traced to Hebrew.
That meaning holds a small landscape. Picture a river running rust-colored over iron in the stone, water that takes on the color of what it passes through.
The name has a documented bearer in Zurab Tsereteli, the Georgian sculptor whose vast monuments rise in Moscow and other cities. Through him the name reached an audience far past any single country.
On a Polish class register it would sit among the Kacpers and Szymons as something rarer, four letters a teacher might read twice. A child called Zurab would learn early that his name asks a question and then answers it. Where does it come from? From Hebrew, and it means red water, czerwona woda.
How many people are named Zurab
1 in 20989 men in Poland is named Zurab. 1,017 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #956 among male names.