Zuriko
A diminutive of Zurab, carrying the sense "red water". In Poland it stays rare and entirely male: about 40 men hold it, and none were given it last year.
Zuriko Pronunciation
Zuriko is pronounced zoo-REE-ko (/zuˈrikɔ/).
What Zuriko means
Where Zuriko comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zuriko starts small. It is the affectionate Georgian diminutive of Zurab, formed with the ending -iko that Georgian adds to shorten a name and warm it. Zurab itself traveled west from Persian, where Sohrab names the young hero of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the son of Rostam who dies by his father's hand.
The meaning recorded here is "red water". In Polish the name is read as odważny, silny, brave and strong. That reading came later. The courage was fastened to the sound once the Persian roots grew distant, and it is the sense that reaches a Polish reader first.
On a class register in Poland, Zuriko would sit apart from the Zuzannas and the Zbigniews around it. The name has no Polish saint and no fixed imieniny. What it keeps is the short line beside it: red water, and behind that, Zurab.
How many people are named Zuriko
1 in 533655 men in Poland is named Zuriko. 40 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6185 among male names.