Zviadi
The final -i is a Georgian nominative ending: drop it and you get Zviad, the shorter form heard across the Caucasus. In Poland it stays rare, carried by a few hundred men and given to almost no boys now.
Zviadi Pronunciation
What Zviadi means
Where Zviadi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zviadi comes to Polish ears from Georgian, where the final -i is the ordinary nominative ending; drop it and you have Zviad, the shorter form heard across the Caucasus. Its origin sits under the plain label of other, apart from the Latin and Slavic sources that fill most Polish name books. The meaning recorded here is blunt: proud, and its harsher neighbour, arrogant.
The best known bearer is Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the writer and dissident who became the first president of independent Georgia in 1991. He was a scholar of Georgian literature before he was a politician. A name that means proud fit the biography almost too well, and it traveled with him into every headline about the young republic.
In Poland the name stays rare. It is unlikely to appear on a school register between Zuzanna and Zofia. Anyone who writes Zviadi on a form at the urząd carries a word that means, in plain terms, proud.
How many people are named Zviadi
1 in 81164 men in Poland is named Zviadi. 263 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1888 among male names.