Udi
About as rare as a Polish name gets: just twelve men carry it, and records show no boy given it since 2000. At root it's Hebrew, "my torch," a short form of Ehud.
Udi Pronunciation
Udi is pronounced OO-dee (/ˈudi/).
What Udi means
Where Udi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Udi is a Hebrew name, a short form of Ehud. Its meaning, "my torch," comes from the Hebrew word ud, a firebrand or ember pulled from a fire. The Jewish association is direct. Ehud stands in the Book of Judges, chapter 3, as a left-handed judge who freed Israel from Moab. In Israel, Udi remains a familiar short form for men named Ehud.
On a Polish school register, Udi would sit apart from the Jakubs and Piotrs listed around it. The spelling gives nothing away in Polish, and Polish name sources record no confirmed meaning for it.
The name stays short. It keeps no Polish diminutive or variant of its own. What survives is the older sense, the firebrand named in ud, and the judge named in Ehud.
How many people are named Udi
1 in 1778849 men in Poland is named Udi. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14610 among male names.