Gulnora
The name means "pomegranate flower". Only 22 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and no girl has been given it this century.
Gulnora Pronunciation
Gulnora is pronounced gool-NO-rah (/gulˈnɔra/).
What Gulnora means
Where Gulnora comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gulnora comes from Persian roots that traveled east into Central Asia, where it remains common among Uzbek and Tajik families. The name joins gul, meaning flower, with the word for pomegranate. Together they give the sense recorded on this page: pomegranate flower, in Polish kwiat granatowca. The pomegranate has grown around the Iranian plateau for thousands of years, so the image behind the name is a real fruit tree in bloom, not a decoration.
In Poland the name is rare. A Polish teacher reading it off a class register might pause before the stress, which falls on the second syllable, gul-NO-ra.
The flower it points to is the bright red blossom that opens before the fruit sets. That is a concrete botanical stage, one any gardener can watch. No standard Polish diminutive has attached itself to Gulnora, and the grounding lists none, so it usually appears in full. The meaning stays legible once you split it: gul for flower, and the pomegranate that follows it into bloom.
How many people are named Gulnora
1 in 1024720 women in Poland is named Gulnora. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9311 among female names.