Umut
A plain Turkish word that means hope, borrowed long ago from Persian. In Poland barely anyone carries it: only a couple hundred people, and most Poles will never meet one.
Umut Pronunciation
Umut is pronounced OO-moot (/ˈumut/).
What Umut means
Where Umut comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Umut is a Turkish word before it is a name. It means hope. Turkish took it long ago from Persian, where "omīd" held the same sense, and it stayed an ordinary noun that people still use in daily speech. You can lose your umut or hold onto it.
Because the name is a plain word, a child called Umut carries something anyone in Turkey can read at a glance. It suits boys and girls alike, one of the unisex names Turkish builds easily from common nouns.
In a Polish class register the name would stand out, hard to trace to any local saint or name-day. There is no diminutive here, no Polish variant to soften it. Umut stays Umut.
And the meaning sits close to the surface, where a Turkish speaker hears it every day: nadzieja, hope.
How many people are named Umut
1 in 101649 men in Poland is named Umut. 217 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2123 among male names.
Umut's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Umut is most popular
Umut is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 boys born+510%
Umut as a middle name
Umut is a first name for 217 men in Poland and a middle name for another 30, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1546th, between Tadesse (30) and Woo (30).
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#1544 Skarbimir30
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#1545 Tadesse30
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#1546 Umut30
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#1547 Woo30
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#1548 Zoltán30