Ulfat
Fewer than twenty people in Poland carry Ulfat, all of them men, and no boy has been given it in the last twenty-five years. The name comes from Arabic, where it means "love, affection".
Ulfat Pronunciation
Ulfat is pronounced OOL-faht (/ˈulfat/).
What Ulfat means
Where Ulfat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulfat comes from Arabic ألفة, built on the root ʾ-l-f, which turns on familiarity and closeness. The word names affection, the settled kind that grows between people who already know each other well. Dictionaries of Urdu and Persian keep this sense: warm companionship, heartfelt attachment. Sufi poets reached for it to describe the bond between a devotee and the divine.
The short meaning recorded here is love, affection. That reading sits close to the origin, since the Arabic noun already means intimacy. Ulfat is used for girls and boys across Arabic-speaking regions and South Asia.
One bearer makes the name checkable. Ulfat Idlibi (1912-2007) was a Syrian novelist from Damascus, author of the novel Sabriya and stories that recorded old city life. Her books were read well beyond Syria.
In Poland the name is rare. On a school register or an urząd form, Ulfat would stand out among Polish classmates. The meaning holds firm: affection, drawn from the Arabic ألفة.
How many people are named Ulfat
1 in 1423079 men in Poland is named Ulfat. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12370 among male names.