Ugur
A Turkish name meaning "good luck, good omen". Fewer than 40 men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Ugur Pronunciation
Ugur is pronounced OO-goor (/ˈugur/).
What Ugur means
Where Ugur comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ugur comes from Turkish, where the word uğur means good luck and good omen. The grounding lists its deeper origin simply as "other," and that fits: the word sits inside Turkish without a tidy Latin or Greek parent to point at. What the name says is plain. It marks a person as a sign of fortune.
In Turkey the name belongs to both men and women, and it appears on footballers, singers, and academics. One documented bearer is Uğur Mumcu, a Turkish investigative journalist killed in 1993, whose name is still attached to streets and prizes.
For a Polish reader the sound arrives from outside. A child called Ugur on a class register in Kraków would stand a little apart from the Antonis and Zuzias around him. The name has no Polish name-day and no diminutive of its own. Its meaning stays close to the surface: szczęście, pomyślność, good luck spoken as a name.
How many people are named Ugur
1 in 547338 men in Poland is named Ugur. 39 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6288 among male names.
Ugur as a middle name
Ugur is a first name for 39 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4067th, between Ugo (7) and Ulf (7).
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#4065 Udaya7
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#4066 Ugo7
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#4067 Ugur7
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#4068 Ulf7
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#4069 Umair7