Umme
Only 15 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000: most Poles have never met one. An Arabic name at root, meaning "mother of".
Umme Pronunciation
Umme is pronounced OOM-me (/ˈummɛ/).
What Umme means
Where Umme comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
"Umme" comes from the Arabic word "umm," meaning mother. In its fuller form it opens a phrase: "umm" plus a name gives "mother of," a construction Arabic uses to name a woman by her child. The short meaning given here, "mother of," is that grammar turned into a name.
This kind of name has a history you can check. Umm Kulthum was a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and centuries later the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum carried the same form to fame in the twentieth century. The "umm" element sits at the front of both.
The origin here is filed simply as other, with an Arabic cultural tie rather than a Slavic one.
On a Polish class register, "Umme" reads as foreign, and that is the point of it. It usually marks an Arabic-speaking family. No Polish diminutive has grown up around it. The form holds. The name stays as it arrived, three letters after the double m, meaning mother of.
How many people are named Umme
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Umme. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12371 among female names.