Uljana
Fewer than 50 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met an Uljana. A small but steady trickle of newborn girls keeps it alive. It's a Slavic form of Juliana, holding the sense "youthful".
Uljana Pronunciation
Uljana is pronounced ool-YAH-nah (/ulˈjana/).
What Uljana means
Where Uljana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uljana reaches Polish from the Slavic east, a form Russian speakers carried for generations. Behind it stands Juliana, the feminine of the Latin Iulianus. The short meaning that travels with the name is youthful, młoda in Polish.
That sense of youth came later. Roman writers tied the Julius family name to the Greek ioulos, the soft down on a young cheek, and the reading of "youthful" attached itself to the whole line. So Uljana keeps an old Roman house name inside a thoroughly Slavic sound.
In Russian it settled as Ulyana, an everyday name with an easy short form. The diminutive is Ula. On a Polish class register the full Uljana looks formal, while Ula is what the child answers to. The name means młoda, youthful, and that meaning fits the short form best.
How many people are named Uljana
1 in 490083 women in Poland is named Uljana. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5658 among female names.
Uljana's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1858 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Uljana as a middle name
Uljana is a first name for 46 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6910th, between Tứ (2) and Ulyana (2).
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#6908 Tímea2
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#6909 Tứ2
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#6910 Uljana2
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#6911 Ulyana2
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#6912 Unita2