Uday
Just 17 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it so far this century. Most Poles will never meet one. The name means "sunrise, dawn".
Uday Pronunciation
Uday is pronounced oo-DAH-ih (/uˈdaɨ/).
What Uday means
Where Uday comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uday comes from Sanskrit, from the word udaya, which names the moment the sun clears the horizon. The short meaning follows directly: sunrise, dawn. Here that origin sits outside the usual Polish stock of names, so on a Polish class register it reads as arrival from elsewhere.
The Sanskrit root joins ud, meaning up or out, with a sense of going. Put together it means a rising. The same element appears in Udaipur, the city in Rajasthan whose name marks a founding and a break of day. So the name and the place share one verb: to come up, to begin.
Bearers make the point plain. Udayan is a documented masculine form, and Uday Shankar, the dancer born in 1900, carried it into concert halls across Europe. His brother Ravi took a different first name and the same surname.
For a Polish parent, Uday has no imieniny in the calendar and no home diminutive. What it does hold is legible. Say it slowly and it stays a plain word for dawn, for the first light, for sunrise.
How many people are named Uday
1 in 1255658 men in Poland is named Uday. 17 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #11290 among male names.
Uday as a middle name
Uday is a first name for 17 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5841st, between Udara (4) and Ulisse (4).
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#5839 Toufik4
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#5840 Udara4
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#5841 Uday4
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#5842 Ulisse4
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#5843 Ulli4