Uktam
It carries the sense "noble, proud". Just 52 men in Poland go by it, so most Poles have never met one, and no boys have been given it in recent years.
Uktam Pronunciation
Uktam is pronounced OOK-tahm (/ˈuktam/).
What Uktam means
Where Uktam comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uktam belongs to a small group of names that Polish records file under one flat label: origin other. It stands apart from the Slavic, Latin, and Greek sources behind most names on a school class register. What survives the classification is the meaning. Noble, proud.
A child called Uktam finds no imieniny waiting in the Polish calendar. There is no saint's day, and no ready diminutive to shorten the name on an official form at the urząd. That absence hands the meaning more room to work. To carry Uktam is to carry the sense of noble and proud with no patron standing in front of it.
The origin marked other is honest rather than empty. It says the name comes from outside the families a Polish reader expects, and it asks the reader to take the meaning as given. Two words hold across the birth certificate and the meaning column, and they do not shift: noble, proud.
How many people are named Uktam
1 in 410504 men in Poland is named Uktam. 52 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5234 among male names.