Ulzhan
The name means "son's soul", carried in Poland by women alone. Only 19 of them have it: most Poles will never meet one, and no girl was named Ulzhan last year.
Ulzhan Pronunciation
Ulzhan is pronounced OOLS-khahn (/ˈulsxan/).
What Ulzhan means
Where Ulzhan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulzhan comes from Kazakh. Two small words join to make it: "ul", meaning son, and "zhan", meaning soul. Put together they give the sense recorded here, son's soul. The origin is filed simply as other, outside the Latin and Slavic roots behind most Polish registers.
The meaning "son's soul" sits close to the surface. Kazakh names often build from plain words this way, stacking one onto another. "Zhan" alone travels widely across Turkic naming, from Central Asia westward. In Ulzhan it fixes the name to a single idea.
The name stays rare in Poland. On a form at the urząd, Ulzhan reads as foreign, and the clerk may ask how to spell it. That marks it as arriving from elsewhere, carried by families with Kazakh ties. The short meaning stays legible to anyone told it: son's soul, ul and zhan.
How many people are named Ulzhan
1 in 1186518 women in Poland is named Ulzhan. 19 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10464 among female names.