Ulises
Only about twenty men in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick in your memory. It reaches Polish through Spanish from the Greek Odysseus, carrying the harsh old sense "wrathful, hateful", and no boy has been recorded with it this century.
Ulises Pronunciation
Ulises is pronounced oo-LEE-ses (/uˈlisɛs/).
What Ulises means
Where Ulises comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulises is the Spanish form of Ulysses, the Latin name for the Greek hero Odysseus. Greek gives the root, the verb odyssasthai, meaning to be angry or to hate. Homer plays with this in the Odyssey. The grandfather Autolycus names the boy Odysseus because he arrived hated by many, and the sense of wrathful stayed close.
Spanish took the name from Latin Ulixes and softened it to Ulises. It travelled with the poem rather than a saint. That leaves it no fixed name-day, so a Polish class register with an Ulises points toward Homer more than the church calendar.
The short meaning still reads harsh: wrathful, hateful. Yet the hero who carried it was known for cunning and endurance more than rage. A boy named Ulises inherits the Greek verb odyssasthai.
How many people are named Ulises
1 in 1067309 men in Poland is named Ulises. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10102 among male names.
Ulises as a middle name
Ulises is a first name for 20 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 61/39 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2710th, between Tuyen (13) and Umesh (13).
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#2708 Turan13
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#2709 Tuyen13
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#2710 Ulises13
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#2711 Umesh13
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#2712 Uzoma13