Urška
Fewer than a dozen women in Poland carry it: the register counts just seven. A Slavic name meaning "little bear", a close cousin of Urszula.
Urška Pronunciation
Urška is pronounced OORŠ-kah (/ˈurška/).
What Urška means
Where Urška comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Urška is the Slavic form of Urszula, and it carries the short meaning "little bear," in Polish niedźwiedziczka. The name reached Slavic tongues through Urszula, whose older root ties to the Latin ursa, a she-bear. Slovene speakers softened it into Urška. Poles kept the fuller Urszula and shortened it, in daily speech, to Ula.
That short meaning stayed small and fond. A little bear is not a fierce thing. It is a cub, warm and stubborn.
In a Polish class register, Urszula sits formal and complete, and by the second week friends call the same girl Ula. The imieniny falls on 21 October, the feast of Saint Ursula.
The bear stays under all of it, in ursa, in Urszula, in the little niedźwiedziczka.
How many people are named Urška
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Urška. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #21724 among female names.