Gülşah
A Turkish name meaning "queen of roses". In Poland it barely registers: 29 women carry it and no girls have been given it in years, so most Poles will never meet one.
Gülşah Pronunciation
Gülşah is pronounced GÜLŞAHKH (/gülşax/).
What Gülşah means
Where Gülşah comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Gülşah comes into Turkish from Persian, built from two borrowed words. Gül means rose, and şah is the shah, the king. Put together, they give the sense rendered in Polish as królowa róż, queen of roses. The grammar underneath is closer to king of the rose, so the royal reading is the one that settled on the name over time, not the literal parse of its parts.
Both pieces travel widely. The same gül appears in Gülnur and Gülsüm, and şah stands behind the title borne by rulers from Iran to the Ottoman court. Gülşah joins a rose to a crown.
It is short. In a Turkish register the ş sounds like the English sh, so the name reads gool-shah. A Polish urząd form will keep the ş and the dotless nothing else, and a teacher reading a class register may pause over that one letter. The spelling holds its Turkish shape without a Polish variant to soften it. What stays fixed through all of it is the pairing given at the start: gül, the rose, and şah, the king, read together as królowa róż.
How many people are named Gülşah
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Gülşah. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7651 among female names.