Hülya
A Turkish name meaning "daydream". Fewer than 40 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one, and no girls have been given it in recent years.
Hülya Pronunciation
Hülya is pronounced KHÜLIH-ah (/ˈxülɨa/).
What Hülya means
Where Hülya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hülya is a Turkish name, and its story starts one language over. The root sits in Arabic, in a word for fantasy and reverie, and Turkish took it up as its own. The meaning stayed close to that source. In Turkish, Hülya means daydream.
The name found its fame on screen. Hülya Koçyiğit became a face of Turkish cinema after her 1963 debut in "Susuz Yaz," the film that took the Golden Bear at Berlin the next year. A generation later Hülya Avşar, an actress and singer, made the name familiar across Turkey. Neither woman softened the meaning. A daydream can be ambitious.
In a Polish class register the name would stand apart from the Zuzannas and Julias. Hülya has no Polish name-day, no cluster of diminutives, no cross-gender twin. It arrives whole, spelled with that umlaut over the u. The Polish gloss holds the Turkish sense steady: marzenie senne, a daydream.
How many people are named Hülya
1 in 626218 women in Poland is named Hülya. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6595 among female names.
Hülya as a middle name
Hülya is a first name for 36 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2770th, between Héléna (8) and Ife (8).
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#2768 Hoài8
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#2769 Héléna8
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#2770 Hülya8
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#2771 Ife8
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#2772 Ifunanya8