Ulrik
Barely ten men in Poland carry Ulrik, and the records show no newborn taking it since 2000. Germanic at root, it comes to Poland in a Scandinavian form meaning "ruler of the heritage."
Ulrik Pronunciation
Ulrik is pronounced OOL-reek (/ˈulrik/).
What Ulrik means
Where Ulrik comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulrik comes from the Germanic name Uodalric. It joins odal, meaning inherited land or patrimony, with ric, meaning ruler. Together they give the sense recorded today: ruler of the heritage. German kept the older shape as Ulrich. Scandinavian speakers pared it down to Ulrik, and that spelling marks it as a name from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
The oldest famous bearer is Ulrich of Augsburg, a bishop who died in 973. In 993 a pope declared him a saint through a formal process, the first such case on record. His feast falls on 4 July.
On a Polish class register, Ulrik would sit apart from the Mareks and Tomeks around it. The k ending looks northern. The meaning underneath stays plain: a ruler of what the family passed down.
How many people are named Ulrik
1 in 2134619 men in Poland is named Ulrik. 10 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #16703 among male names.
Ulrik as a middle name
Ulrik is a first name for 10 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6963rd, between Uba (3) and Uria (3).
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#6963 Ulrik3
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