Ufuk
A Turkish name meaning "horizon". Fewer than 70 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them men, and no boys have been given it this century, so most Poles will never meet one.
Ufuk Pronunciation
Ufuk is pronounced OO-fook (/ˈufuk/).
What Ufuk means
Where Ufuk comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ufuk means horizon. The word arrived in Turkish from Arabic, where ufuq (أفق) marks the line where earth and sky meet. That origin sits outside the Turkic word-stock, a borrowing old and worn smooth by long use.
In Turkey the name fits a man or a woman equally, and it keeps no separate feminine or masculine form. A Polish reader meets it as horyzont, the same far edge of the visible world, the point where looking runs out of land. Turkish speakers hear in it a sense of distance and open prospect, a reading attached to the plain geography of the word.
Picture a class register at a Polish school, where a boy named Ufuk sits between Urszula and Wiktor. The name reads as plainly Turkish there, and its meaning holds. Ufuk still points at the horizon.
How many people are named Ufuk
1 in 328403 men in Poland is named Ufuk. 68 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4411 among male names.
Ufuk as a middle name
Ufuk is a first name for 68 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5080th, between Ty (5) and Umer (5).
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#5078 Tufan5
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#5079 Ty5
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#5080 Ufuk5
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#5081 Umer5
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#5082 Ung5