Urmila
Fewer than twenty women in Poland carry this name, so meeting one would stay with you. Its root means "wave", and every bearer on record is a woman.
Urmila Pronunciation
Urmila is pronounced oor-MEE-lah (/urˈmila/).
What Urmila means
Where Urmila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Urmila reaches back to Sanskrit, where the root urmi means wave. Polish keeps that sense as fala.
The oldest bearer lives in the Ramayana. Urmila is the wife of Lakshmana and the younger sister of Sita. One strand of the epic tradition, called Urmila Nidra, holds that she slept for fourteen years so her husband could stay awake and guard Rama in the forest. Her name holds water in it, and that sits oddly against so long a stillness.
In India the name stays in use, and one modern bearer is the actor Urmila Matondkar. On a Polish class register the spelling would give a teacher no trouble, since each letter lands where a Polish reader expects it. The tie to water is literal: urmi means wave, fala.
How many people are named Urmila
1 in 1610274 women in Poland is named Urmila. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13054 among female names.
Urmila as a middle name
Urmila is a first name for 14 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6914th, between Unka (2) and Ursyna (2).
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#6912 Unita2
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#6913 Unka2
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#6914 Urmila2
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#6915 Ursyna2
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#6916 Usha2