Ulryk
Just 63 men in all of Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it in years: most people here will never meet one. Germanic at root, it means something close to "heritage-ruler", wealthy and powerful.
Ulryk Pronunciation
Ulryk is pronounced OOL-rihk (/ˈulrɨk/).
What Ulryk means
Where Ulryk comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulryk is a Germanic name built from two old roots. The first, uodal, meant inherited land, the estate handed down within a family. The second, rihhi, meant ruler or powerful. Together they hold the sense kept in the Polish gloss dziedziczny władca, a lord over what he has received. The German Ulrich is the same name.
There was a real Ulrich behind the calendar. Ulrich of Augsburg, a bishop who died in 973, is often named as the first person canonized by a pope, in 993. His feast falls on 4 July.
In a Polish class register Ulryk sits rare among the Piotrs and Jakubs. The feminine variant Ulryka is rarer still. The two roots hold the whole meaning: heritage and ruler.
When Ulryk celebrates name day
Ulryk appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 20 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Ulryk
1 in 338828 men in Poland is named Ulryk. 63 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4646 among male names.
Ulryk as a middle name
Ulryk is a first name for 63 men in Poland and a middle name for another 25, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1733rd, between Tien (25) and Yi̇ği̇t (25).
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#1731 Tadiwa25
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#1732 Tien25
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#1733 Ulryk25
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#1734 Yi̇ği̇t25
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#1735 Zion25