Usha
It means "dawn". In Poland the name stays vanishingly rare: only about 27 women carry it, and no girl has been given it since records begin in 2000.
Usha Pronunciation
What Usha means
Where Usha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Usha means dawn. The name comes from Sanskrit, where Uṣas was the Vedic goddess of morning light, praised in the oldest hymns of the Rigveda.
The name belongs to a wide word family. Latin aurora, Greek eos, and the root that linguists reconstruct as h₂éwsōs all reach back to the same first light. These are cognates, kin by descent rather than borrowings.
On a Polish class register, Usha stands apart. No local name-day marks it, no Slavic cousin softens it. A parent at the urząd writes four letters and a meaning that came from northern India.
Polish has two words for what Usha holds. Świt says the plain thing, the break of day. Jutrzenka, the old word for the morning star, sits nearer in feeling. Usha names dawn, and nothing later dimmed it.
How many people are named Usha
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Usha. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8185 among female names.
Usha as a middle name
Usha is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6916th, between Ursyna (2) and Ustina (2).
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#6914 Urmila2
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#6915 Ursyna2
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#6916 Usha2
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#6917 Ustina2
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#6918 Utsav2