Umud
Turkish for "hope". In Poland just 27 men carry it, and no boys have been recorded with it since 2000, so most Poles will never meet one.
Umud Pronunciation
Umud is pronounced OO-moot (/ˈumut/).
What Umud means
Where Umud comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Umud belongs to Turkish, where the everyday word for hope carries the same shape and sound. The origin sits outside the usual Slavic and Latin roots that fill a Polish register. Its meaning is direct: hope, or in Polish, nadzieja. A child called Umud wears an ordinary noun as a name, the way a Polish family might once have reached for Nadzieja.
The word behaves like a small forecast. Hope points ahead, toward a thing not yet arrived, and the name keeps that forward tilt.
In a Polish classroom, Umud would stand out on the register, seated between a Kacper and a Zuzanna, its Turkish origin plain to anyone who reads the list. That difference is the point. The name announces where it comes from and refuses to be mistaken for a local form. There is no diminutive here, no softened variant to hide behind. Umud stays whole. What it means never drifts far from what it says, and what it says is hope.
How many people are named Umud
1 in 790600 men in Poland is named Umud. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8183 among male names.