Teimuraz
The name means "strong body". Around 430 men in Poland carry it and no boy has been given it in years: rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Teimuraz Pronunciation
Teimuraz is pronounced te-ee-MOO-rahs (/tɛiˈmuras/).
What Teimuraz means
Where Teimuraz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Teimuraz came to Georgia from Persia, where it started as Tahmuras. That older form belongs to a king in the Persian epic tradition, and readers of the name have long glossed it as "strong body." The reading sits near what Polish attaches to it, żelazo, iron. A man built like iron.
The name settled into Georgian royal lines. Teimuraz I of Kakheti ruled in the early seventeenth century, and he was a poet as much as a king; some of his verse still survives. Teimuraz II came a hundred years after him. Both men wore the name through decades when their kingdom was squeezed between the Ottoman and Persian empires.
A Polish class register today would set it down plainly among the classmates, an unusual entry under T. Whoever holds it holds a word that once meant strength of body, and that Polish renders as żelazo.
How many people are named Teimuraz
1 in 49642 men in Poland is named Teimuraz. 430 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1432 among male names.