Ulaş
Turkish for "to reach, to attain". In Poland it barely registers: 36 men carry it, all of them male, and no boys have been given it in recent years.
Ulaş Pronunciation
Ulaş is pronounced OO-lahş (/ˈulaş/).
What Ulaş means
Where Ulaş comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulaş sits close to the Turkish verb ulaşmak, which means to reach, to attain. The record here traces its etymological root to Latin. The sense stays plain: arrival, getting there.
Ulaş is also a place. There is a town called Ulaş in Sivas Province, in central Turkey, so the name doubles as a spot on the map. A child called Ulaş shares it with streets and a district.
On a Polish school register the diacritic ş marks the name out at once. That letter is a single Turkish consonant. Polish sz would be two letters and a softer sound.
The Polish reading of the meaning is osiągać, dotrzeć. Both verbs point at covering distance and ending up somewhere. The name has no diminutives and no cross-gender variants on record. What stays is the base form, Ulaş, and its meaning, to reach.
How many people are named Ulaş
1 in 592950 men in Poland is named Ulaş. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6659 among male names.
Ulaş as a middle name
Ulaş is a first name for 36 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2458th, between Tú (15) and Valdemar (15).
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#2456 Thái15
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#2457 Tú15
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#2458 Ulaş15
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#2459 Valdemar15
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#2460 Vilhelm15