Tengizi
The name means "sea". In Poland it stays vanishingly rare: fewer than a hundred men carry it, no boys have been given it in years, and most Poles will never meet one.
Tengizi Pronunciation
Tengizi is pronounced ten-GEE-zhee (/tɛnˈgiʑi/).
What Tengizi means
Where Tengizi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Tengizi comes from the Turkic word tengiz, also spelled dengiz, meaning sea. Georgian carries it as Tengiz, and the final -i marks the old nominative case, the form you meet in dictionaries and formal records. This sea reaches well past the Black Sea coast. The word traveled with Turkic speakers across Central Asia, and a vast oil field in Kazakhstan still bears the name Tengiz for the same reason. That field sits on the Caspian shore.
One bearer gives the name a face. Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director, best known for Repentance, completed in 1984 and released in 1987. The film took the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes in 1987, which put the name on screens far outside Georgia.
On a Polish class register, Tengizi would read as a rare Caucasian entry among the Katarzynas and Piotrs. There is no Polish name-day for it, and no diminutive has settled onto it. What holds steady is the meaning: sea, morze, the same water the Turkic word first named.
How many people are named Tengizi
1 in 222356 men in Poland is named Tengizi. 96 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3550 among male names.