Zhyldyz
The name means "star". Just 24 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Zhyldyz Pronunciation
Zhyldyz is pronounced SKHIHL-dihs (/ˈsxɨldɨs/).
What Zhyldyz means
Where Zhyldyz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zhyldyz means star. The name comes from a Turkic word, жылдыз in Kyrgyz and Kazakh, used for the lights of the night sky. A girl given this name is named for those points of light directly, with no metaphor in between.
The word has cousins across the Turkic languages. Turkish speakers say yıldız for the same thing, and the two forms sit close enough that a bearer moving between them would hear her own name. In Polish the meaning lands as gwiazda.
On a Polish class register, Zhyldyz would stand out among the Zuzannas and Julias, its cluster of consonants asking the teacher to slow down. The spelling holds the sound of the original. Read the ending, dyz, and you reach the Turkic word for star.
How many people are named Zhyldyz
1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Zhyldyz. 24 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8935 among female names.