Uzma
In Poland this is about as rare as a name gets: just seven women carry it, all of them, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. An Arabic name meaning "supreme" or "lofty".
Uzma Pronunciation
Uzma is pronounced OOZ-mah (/ˈuzma/).
What Uzma means
Where Uzma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uzma comes from Arabic, where the word ʿuẓmā (عُظْمَى) is the feminine superlative of ʿaẓīm, meaning great. The literal sense sits close to the surface: supreme, lofty. In Polish that reads as wzniosła, najwyższa.
The name spread with Arabic vocabulary that entered Urdu through Islam, and it became common among Urdu speakers in Pakistan and northern India. Documented bearers there include the Pakistani actress Uzma Gillani, who worked in television and film from the 1970s. The same superlative turns up in Arabic set phrases, where it marks the highest degree of a thing.
In Poland the name is rare. A girl named Uzma is more likely to explain her name at the urząd than to find it printed in the imieniny calendar. There is no Polish diminutive, no Slavic variant, no cross-gender pair. It travels as itself.
The meaning has stayed steady across those moves. Written in Arabic script or entered on a Polish class register, Uzma keeps the sense it began with: supreme, lofty.
How many people are named Uzma
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Uzma. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #21727 among female names.