Ulana
Barely 70 women in Poland carry it, and no girls were given it last year: most Poles will never meet one. A Slavic name with Ukrainian roots, from a word for light, a torch.
Ulana Pronunciation
Ulana is pronounced oo-LAH-nah (/uˈlana/).
What Ulana means
Where Ulana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulana comes to Polish ears from the east. It is a Slavic name at home in Ukrainian, where Uliana stands as its close variant. The two forms trade places across the border, one letter apart. The short meaning given for Ulana is light, a torch.
The sense of "light" was attached to the name later, and it suits how the name reads. Short and bright at the front. On a Polish class register Ulana stands apart from the Julias and Zuzannas around it, and the difference is easy to hear.
For a child filling out an official form at the urząd, the spelling marks a tie to the Ukrainian side of Slavic naming. Uliana or Ulana, the choice is small and it matters to the family making it. The torch stays in the meaning, and Uliana waits one letter away.
How many people are named Ulana
1 in 322055 women in Poland is named Ulana. 70 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4318 among female names.
Ulana as a middle name
Ulana is a first name for 70 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 90/10 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2881st, between Uchechi (8) and Valeriia (8).
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#2879 Tin8
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#2880 Uchechi8
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#2881 Ulana8
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#2882 Valeriia8
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#2883 Vasylyna8