Umida
Just 31 women in Poland carry Umida, so most people here have never met one, and no girl has been recorded with it in years. The name means "hope".
Umida Pronunciation
Umida is pronounced oo-MEE-dah (/uˈmida/).
What Umida means
Where Umida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Umida comes from Central Asia, carried by Uzbek and Tajik families. It is the feminine form of Umid, and both go back to the Persian word omid. That word means hope. The Polish gloss is nadzieja, and here the link is literal. The meaning sits in the root itself, so no later story had to attach it.
The masculine Umid and the feminine Umida travel together across Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. One documented bearer is Umida Akhmedova, an Uzbek photographer and documentary filmmaker born in 1955. Her work put the name into public record well beyond a family register.
Read a class register in a Warsaw school and a name like Umida marks a family whose roots reach east of the usual Slavic set. It has no Polish name-day, no diminutive worn smooth by generations of Kasias and Zosias. What it has instead is a plain meaning that a Polish speaker already knows. A child called Umida is, in Persian and in Polish alike, named for nadzieja, from the root omid.
How many people are named Umida
1 in 727220 women in Poland is named Umida. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7398 among female names.