Ulkar
The name carries the Pleiades, the star cluster, from its Azerbaijani source. In Poland it barely registers: about 25 women hold it, all of them women, and no girls have been given it in years.
Ulkar Pronunciation
Ulkar is pronounced OOL-kahr (/ˈulkar/).
What Ulkar means
Where Ulkar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulkar names a cluster of stars. In Azerbaijani, Ülkər is the word for the Pleiades, the small knot of lights that rises over the winter sky and that farmers once used to mark the turning of seasons. The name comes from Turkic star-lore, where the Pleiades were watched, counted, and named long before telescopes.
The short meaning stays close to that origin. Ulkar means the Pleiades, the star cluster, and Polish keeps it as plejady, gromada gwiazd. There is no saint behind it and no Latin root. It belongs to a different sky-map than most names on a Polish register.
Picture the moment a teacher reads Ulkar from a class list in Gdańsk. The name has no diminutive waiting behind it, no obvious Polish nickname. It arrives whole. A parent filling in the form at the urząd writes six letters that point, quite literally, at seven stars. That is the fact worth keeping: Ulkar is a name for the Pleiades, and it carries no second meaning stacked on top.
How many people are named Ulkar
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Ulkar. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8659 among female names.