Uddin
The name carries an Arabic sense, "of the faith". In Poland it barely registers: just ten men hold it, all of them male, and no boy has been given it in any tracked year.
Uddin Pronunciation
What Uddin means
Where Uddin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uddin traces back to Arabic ad-dīn, meaning "of the faith" or "of the religion." It rarely stands alone. In Arabic naming it works as a suffix, the second half of a compound honorific, fused to a first element that names a virtue or a role.
The most famous carrier is Salah ad-Din, the twelfth-century sultan Europe called Saladin. His name reads as "righteousness of the faith." The same ending built Nur ad-Din, "light of the faith," and later Nasir ad-Din, "helper of the faith." Over centuries in South Asia the suffix drifted loose, and Uddin settled as a standalone family name and given name for millions in Bangladesh and beyond.
The short meaning stays close to the root: of the faith. That religious sense was present from the start, because dīn means faith itself. No Polish diminutive has grown around the name. In a class register it now sits among children of Bangladeshi families, read out at roll call. The origin is plain: dīn, faith.
How many people are named Uddin
1 in 2134619 men in Poland is named Uddin. 10 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #16702 among male names.
Uddin as a middle name
Uddin is a first name for 10 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 26/74 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1577th, between Uche (29) and Wlodzimierz (29).
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#1575 Todd29
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#1576 Uche29
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#1577 Uddin29
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#1578 Wlodzimierz29
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#1579 Wojmir29