Vakhtang
Its meaning is blunt and vivid: "wolf-bodied". In Poland it stays firmly outside the mainstream, carried by just over 300 men and given to no newborns lately, so most Poles will never meet one.
Vakhtang Pronunciation
What Vakhtang means
Where Vakhtang comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vakhtang belongs to Georgia, and its roots reach back to an Iranian source. Scholars trace it to old Iranian words for wolf and body, which is why the short meaning reads as wolf-bodied. In Polish that comes out as wilcze ciało. The origin sits outside the Slavic, Latin, and Greek families that fill most Polish registers.
The best-known bearer is Vakhtang I, a fifth-century king of Iberia remembered as Gorgasali, a byname that also points to the wolf. Georgian tradition credits him with founding Tbilisi, and the Georgian Orthodox Church counts him among its saints.
Closer to now, Vakhtang Kikabidze carried the name as a Georgian singer and actor known across the old Soviet world. On a Polish class register the name would stand out at once. It has no diminutives or variants handed down here. So it arrives whole. The wolf stays in it, body and all: wilcze ciało.
How many people are named Vakhtang
1 in 68637 men in Poland is named Vakhtang. 311 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1716 among male names.