Umed
The name means "hope". Fewer than 40 men in Poland carry it and no boys have been given it in recent years, so meeting one would stay with you.
Umed Pronunciation
Umed is pronounced OO-met (/ˈumɛt/).
What Umed means
Where Umed comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Umed comes from Persian, where omid (امید) means hope. In Tajik the same word is written umed, and in Cyrillic script умед. The sense of hope is the origin here, not a meaning attached later. Hope sits in the root.
Across Persian-speaking regions the name keeps that one meaning intact. A bearer named Umed answers to the plainest of wishes. In Poland the name stays rare. Read from a school register between a Kacper and a Zuzanna, it marks a family with roots east of the usual Polish map.
There is little folklore stacked on top of it, no saint's day, no long chain of literary bearers to recite. What the name holds is direct. Umed means hope, the same nadzieja that already lives as a Polish name, spoken in Persian as omid.
How many people are named Umed
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Umed. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6400 among male names.