Umyt
This name means "hope". Only nine men in Poland carry it, so nearly everyone here goes a lifetime without meeting one, and no boys have been given it in years.
Umyt Pronunciation
Umyt is pronounced OO-miht (/ˈumɨt/).
What Umyt means
Where Umyt comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Umyt does not sit easily beside the familiar Polish names. Its origin is recorded plainly as other, apart from the Latin roots behind Katarzyna and the Slavic ones behind Bogdan. The file assigns it a single meaning: nadzieja in Polish, hope in English.
That sense of hope reads as an attached meaning rather than a literal beginning. Where other names lean on a saint or a king, Umyt has no such bearer on record. The name arrives with no diminutive, no variant, no cross-gender twin. Umyt stands alone.
Picture a September class register in a Polish school. The teacher pauses at Umyt, then reads it as written. There is nothing to shorten and nothing to mistake. What the name offers the child is its stated meaning, hope, held in four plain letters.
How many people are named Umyt
1 in 2371799 men in Poland is named Umyt. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #18063 among male names.