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Ulyana

A Slavic name from Russian and Ukrainian, tracing back to the Latin Julius and its sense of "youthful". Only around 1,100 women in Poland carry it, and it's given less each year: most Poles have never met one.

Ulyana Pronunciation

Ulyana is pronounced oo-lih-AH-nah (/ulɨˈana/).

Alive in 2025
1,089
Newborns 2025
3
National rank
#923

What Ulyana means

Where Ulyana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Ulyana reaches Polish ears through Russian and Ukrainian, where it settled long ago as the familiar form of Juliana. The deeper root is Latin, the name of the gens Julia, and from that family line comes the sense of "youthful." So the meaning młodzieńcza did not grow from any Slavic word. It arrived by descent from Julius.

That descent matters, because Ulyana looks and feels fully Slavic while carrying a Roman ancestry inside it. Ukrainian and Russian speakers wore down the longer Juliana until this softer shape remained. The name has real bearers to point to: Ulyana Lopatkina, the Mariinsky ballerina, gave it a face known well beyond the two cultures that raised it.

In Poland the name stays uncommon, so a teacher reading a class register might pause on it once before the year settles into routine. That small hesitation is part of its life here.

The story is short to tell. Ulyana is Juliana, shortened, and its meaning of "youthful" comes straight from Julius.

How many people are named Ulyana

1 in 20701 women in Poland is named Ulyana. 1,089 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #923 among female names.

People with the name Ulyana 2019 → 2025
1,089 +886 since 2019
2020 224 +21
2021 283 +59
2022 398 +115
2023 904 +506
2024 1,036 +132
2025 1,089 +53

Ulyana's popularity over time

3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1379 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #923 name among living women, even as it slips to #1379 among newborns.

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3 newborns with the name Ulyana in 2025
national rank #1379 that year

Where parents choose Ulyana

Ulyana is most popular in West Pomeranian, 509% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+249%) and Lower Silesian (+96%). It is least common in Lesser Poland, 9% below average.

Chosen most
  • West Pomeranian
    +509%
    1 in 16,885 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +249%
    1 in 29,464 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +96%
    1 in 52,378 babies
Chosen least
  • Lesser Poland
    −9%
    1 in 113,458 babies

Ulyana as a middle name

Ulyana is a first name for 1,089 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6911th, between Uljana (2) and Unita (2).

As a first name
1,089
As a middle name
2
first name 100% middle name 0%
Middle-name ranking women

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