Ulugbek
The name carries the sense of "great ruler, great prince". In Poland it stays genuinely rare: about 337 men answer to it, all of them male, and the records show no boys given it in recent years, so meeting one would stick with you.
Ulugbek Pronunciation
Ulugbek is pronounced oo-LOOG-bek (/uˈlugbɛk/).
What Ulugbek means
Where Ulugbek comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulugbek comes from Turkic words: ulugh, great, and beg, a ruler or prince. Together they give the meaning the site records, great ruler, great prince. The origin sits outside the Slavic and Latin families that fill most Polish name lists.
The name has a famous bearer. Ulugh Beg lived from 1394 to 1449, a grandson of the conqueror Timur, and he governed Samarkand. He gave more of himself to the sky than to the battlefield. His observatory produced a star catalogue that fixed the positions of nearly a thousand stars, work astronomers still cite. A great ruler, then, who chose to measure the heavens.
In Poland the name is rare. You might meet it on a school register in a classroom of children whose families came from Uzbekistan or nearby, where Ulugbek stays ordinary. No Polish name-day marks it, so its meaning travels with the child: great ruler.
How many people are named Ulugbek
1 in 63342 men in Poland is named Ulugbek. 337 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1641 among male names.