Guneyvaz was a village in the territory of the Zangezur uezd of the Yelizavetpol (Ganja)   governorate, later in the former Mehri (Meghri) district, and present-day Syunik province. The village was ruined in the early 20th century.

The toponym was coined by combining the words “guney” meaning in Azerbaijani “south, the side that gets sunlight” and “vaz”, the dialectal form of “bazi/baz” meaning in Turkic “a mountain depression”, “a hill or elevation in a lowland”, “a hollow”.