Ulla
A Germanic name at root, from the Old Norse úlfr, "wolf". It's rare enough that most Poles have never met one: around thirty women carry it, all of them female.
Ulla Pronunciation
Ulla is pronounced OOL-lah (/ˈulla/).
What Ulla means
Where Ulla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulla comes out of the Germanic north, carried by Scandinavian and German speakers for many centuries. The root runs back to Old Norse úlfr, meaning wolf. From that same root come the men's names Ulf and Ulrik. Ulla sits in their family, a short form standing on its own, used by women.
The root is old. In Polish the name is glossed as wilk, and with it odwaga i siła, courage and strength. That sense of the animal came later, once the wolf stood less for the beast in the forest and more for the qualities people admired in a person. Sweden gave the name a documented bearer in Ulla Billquist, a singer who lived from 1907 to 1946.
On a Polish class register the name reads fast. Four letters, easy to call at roll. Ulla holds its Scandinavian shape far from the north, and its meaning stays fixed at úlfr, the wolf.
How many people are named Ulla
1 in 751461 women in Poland is named Ulla. 30 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7577 among female names.
Ulla's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ulla as a middle name
Ulla is a first name for 30 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2341st, between Tsitsi (11) and Uma (11).
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#2339 Ting11
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#2340 Tsitsi11
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#2341 Ulla11
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#2342 Uma11
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#2343 Unisława11