Ulryka
Only 21 women in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborn girls with it since 2000. Most Poles have never met one. At root it's Germanic, a name of power and prosperity.
Ulryka Pronunciation
Ulryka is pronounced ool-RIH-kah (/ulˈrɨka/).
What Ulryka means
Where Ulryka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulryka comes from Germanic roots. The old form Uodalric joined uodal, meaning inheritance or ancestral land, with rīhhi, meaning ruler or mighty. Together the parts point toward prosperity and power. In Polish that reading becomes władczyni dziedzictwa, a woman who rules over what was passed down.
The masculine counterpart is Ulryk, the same name with a different ending. Both trace back to the German Ulrich. One famous bearer was Ulrich of Augsburg, a tenth-century bishop and the first saint formally canonized by a pope, in 993.
Ulryka stays rare in Poland. When it turns up on a class register or an urząd form, it brings that old meaning along: the uodal element first meant inherited property, so prosperity sat inside the name from the start. The heritage in władczyni dziedzictwa comes straight from the root, uodal.
How many people are named Ulryka
1 in 1073516 women in Poland is named Ulryka. 21 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9772 among female names.
Ulryka as a middle name
Ulryka is a first name for 21 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2117th, between Trauta (13) and Wally (13).
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#2115 Talia13
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#2116 Trauta13
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#2117 Ulryka13
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#2118 Wally13
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#2119 Yolande13