Ujjwal
The name means bright, radiant. In Poland it sits at the far edge of rare: just 14 men carry it, and no boy was given it last year.
Ujjwal Pronunciation
Ujjwal is pronounced OOYY-vahl (/ˈujjval/).
What Ujjwal means
Where Ujjwal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ujjwal comes from Sanskrit, where the word ujjvala (उज्ज्वल) means bright or luminous. It goes back to the root jval, to blaze. The Polish gloss, jasny and promienny, sits close to that older sense of light.
A name like this stays tied to its meaning. Speakers of Hindi, Bengali, and Nepali carry it, most often as a boy's name. The spelling shifts with transliteration, so Ujjwal and Ujjval both point to one word.
On a Polish class register it would read as foreign. Its meaning needs no translation. The Sanskrit said so once, and it says so still: bright, radiant.
How many people are named Ujjwal
1 in 1524728 men in Poland is named Ujjwal. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13048 among male names.