Uma
The name means "flax", the flowering plant. In Poland it's rare enough to be a surprise: fewer than 60 people carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Uma Pronunciation
Uma is pronounced OO-mah (/ˈuma/).
What Uma means
Where Uma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uma means flax, the slender plant with pale blue flowers that Polish hands once combed and spun into linen. Its origin sits outside the usual name families, filed simply as other. That sets it apart from names grown from saints or Latin roots. The sense stays practical, tied to the len that covered fields long before cotton reached the villages.
The best known bearer today is Uma Thurman, the American actress born in 1970. Her name traveled through film and grew familiar far from any flax field.
On a Polish class register, Uma is short. Four letters. A teacher reads it once and remembers it.
No diminutive comes attached, no variant, no cross-gender twin. The name stands as given. What it holds is the older word for flax, the len whose flower opens blue for a single morning.
How many people are named Uma
1 in 433535 women in Poland is named Uma. 57 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4931 among female names.
Uma's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Uma as a middle name
Uma is a first name for 57 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2342nd, between Ulla (11) and Unisława (11).
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#2340 Tsitsi11
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#2341 Ulla11
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#2342 Uma11
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#2343 Unisława11
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#2344 Ute11