Ulduz
The name means "star". It's about as rare as a name gets in Poland: just seven women carry it, and the record shows no girls given it since 2000.
Ulduz Pronunciation
Ulduz is pronounced OOL-doos (/ˈuldus/).
What Ulduz means
Where Ulduz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulduz means star. The word comes from Azerbaijani, where ulduz is the plain, daily term for the lights in the night sky. This is the origin, not a poetic overlay added later. The name and the noun are the same word.
Turkic languages share the root. Turkish speakers say yıldız for the same thing, a close cognate that shows how far the word travels across the region. Ulduz belongs to that family, and it names a girl after the clearest point in a dark sky.
In Poland the name is rare, and it has no name-day in the Polish calendar. A teacher reading a class register might pause on Ulduz once, then learn it fast. Its meaning stays fixed wherever it lands: star, gwiazda in Polish.
How many people are named Ulduz
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Ulduz. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #21715 among female names.