Tsotne
The name means "little, few". Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, all of them men, so most Poles have never met one.
Tsotne Pronunciation
Tsotne is pronounced TSOT-ne (/ˈtsɔtnɛ/).
What Tsotne means
Where Tsotne comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tsotne comes from Georgian. It was carried in the Caucasus long before it reached any Polish record. The short meaning given here is "little, few." Georgian holds a close neighbour in the word ცოტა, tsota, meaning little or few. Whether the name grew straight from that word is not settled, so the sense of smallness sits beside it rather than under it.
The best documented bearer is Tsotne Dadiani, a thirteenth-century noble of western Georgia. The Georgian Orthodox Church later canonised him for an act of loyalty to fellow prisoners under Mongol rule. His feast day still keeps the name in Georgian calendars.
Picture the name on a Polish class register, one Tsotne among the Zuzannas and Jakubs. It would draw a second glance at every roll call. The origin stays foreign, and the meaning stays modest: little, few.
How many people are named Tsotne
1 in 215618 men in Poland is named Tsotne. 99 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3485 among male names.