Cuma
A Turkish name meaning "Friday". In Poland it barely registers: fewer than 40 men carry it, and no boy has been given it since 2000, so meeting one would stick with you.
Cuma Pronunciation
Cuma is pronounced TSOO-mah (/ˈt͡suma/).
What Cuma means
Where Cuma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cuma is Turkish for Friday. The word reached Turkish from Arabic, where jumuʿa names the day of communal prayer, the gathering when people come together. A Turkish boy given the name Cuma was usually born on a Friday, and the name records the day plainly.
The sense of the word is literal. Friday holds the main weekly prayer across the Muslim world, and Cuma keeps that day fixed in a person. There is no later legend grafted onto it. The name means the weekday, nothing hidden behind it.
On a Polish class register, Cuma reads as foreign next to Wojciech and Zofia. Poland has no imieniny for it, no saint's slot in the calendar, since the name points to a day rather than a patron. That is its whole logic. Cuma is piątek, Friday, the day a child arrived.
How many people are named Cuma
1 in 547338 men in Poland is named Cuma. 39 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6199 among male names.