Zviad
An unusual thing to hang on a child: the meaning runs to "proud, arrogant". Only 438 men in Poland carry it, with no boys given it in recent years, so most people here will never meet one.
Zviad Pronunciation
What Zviad means
Where Zviad comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zviad reaches Poland from far outside the usual Slavic and Latin sources. Its filed origin is simply "other", a name that arrived without a Roman saint or a Germanic root to anchor it. The short meaning given is "proud, arrogant", in Polish dumny, wyniosły, and that reading colours how the name lands on a Polish ear.
The best-known bearer makes the point. Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939–1993) was the first president of independent Georgia, a dissident writer before he became a politician. His name travelled through news reports in the early 1990s, and for many readers outside the Caucasus that was the first Zviad they had met.
On a Polish class register the name stands out at once. There are no diminutives waiting for it, no Polish variant to soften it. It stays whole.
The meaning "proud" need not read as a fault. Pride can mean dignity held upright. Zviad keeps its sense of dumny, wyniosły without apology.
How many people are named Zviad
1 in 48736 men in Poland is named Zviad. 438 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1413 among male names.