Fulya
A Turkish name for the daffodil, the jonquil, the narcissus flower. Only 18 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Fulya Pronunciation
Fulya is pronounced foo-LIH-ah (/fuˈlɨa/).
What Fulya means
Where Fulya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fulya comes to Poland as a Turkish word for a flower. It names the jonquil, a narcissus with narrow leaves and a yellow bloom, the żonkil and narcyz of a Polish garden. Dictionaries file its origin under "other", since it does not grow from the common Turkic roots. The plant and the word entered Turkish together.
The flower opens early. Spring names hold that timing without stating it, and Fulya sits in the same March and April as the daffodil. In Turkish the name stays close to the plant, with no diminutive and no variant form to shorten it. What you are given is what you keep.
Picture a class register in a Warsaw school. A teacher reads Fulya between Franciszka and Gabriela, and the pause is short. The name is easy to say in Polish. Four letters, two syllables, one flower behind them: the narcissus the Turks call fulya.
How many people are named Fulya
1 in 1252435 women in Poland is named Fulya. 18 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10634 among female names.
Fulya as a middle name
Fulya is a first name for 18 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3604th, between Fruma (5) and Fátima (5).
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#3602 Frederika5
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#3603 Fruma5
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#3604 Fulya5
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#3605 Fátima5
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#3606 Gema5