Umid
Umid means "hope". It sits far out on the edge of Polish naming: only about 114 men carry it, all male, and no boys were given it last year, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Umid Pronunciation
Umid is pronounced OO-meet (/ˈumit/).
What Umid means
Where Umid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Umid begins in Persian, where the word omid means hope. That word holds the whole of the name. From Persian it passed into Uzbek and Tajik, and boys across Central Asia have carried it for generations.
In Persian, omid is an ordinary word. People reach for it in plain speech and in classical verse, in the line where someone still has hope for something. The name keeps that meaning wherever it travels. It means hope. A boy called Umid is named for that and for nothing more elaborate.
In Poland the name sounds foreign, and its roots lie far from the Vistula. Picture it on a school class register, set between Jan and Kacper, one sound pattern out of step with the rest of the column. The teacher reading the roll would meet a name built from a single Persian noun. That noun is omid, and it means hope.
How many people are named Umid
1 in 187247 men in Poland is named Umid. 114 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3188 among male names.