Ulrike
Fewer than 50 women in Poland carry Ulrike, and no girl has been given it in the whole record: not one newborn since 2000. It comes from Germanic roots meaning "prosperous ruler", a name of noble heritage.
Ulrike Pronunciation
Ulrike is pronounced ool-REE-ke (/ulˈrikɛ/).
What Ulrike means
Where Ulrike comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulrike is the German feminine of Ulrich, and both grow from the Old High German name Uodalrich. That name joined two words: uodal, meaning ancestral land or inherited property, and rīhhi, meaning powerful or ruler. Put together they give the sense the site records, prosperous ruler, noble heritage. The Polish gloss, potężny dziedzic, holds the same idea of one who inherits and holds.
The name belongs firmly to German-speaking lands, and one bearer fixed it in literary memory. Ulrike von Levetzow met Goethe at a spa in Marienbad. He was seventy-four. His love for her, unreturned, produced the Marienbader Elegie of 1823. She never married and died in 1899.
Picture a class register in a Silesian school, the teacher reading down the column and landing on Ulrike. The spelling looks plain on the page. Behind it sits that old compound of heritage and rule, unchanged since the days of Uodalrich.
How many people are named Ulrike
1 in 490083 women in Poland is named Ulrike. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5659 among female names.
Ulrike as a middle name
Ulrike is a first name for 46 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2498th, between Tushar (10) and Valeska (10).
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#2496 Tomiła10
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#2497 Tushar10
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#2498 Ulrike10
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#2499 Valeska10
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#2500 Vicky10