Zulikhan
Only 44 women in Poland carry it, and no newborns have taken it this century: most Poles will never meet a Zulikhan. The name traces to Arabic, with a sense of radiant, shining beauty.
Zulikhan Pronunciation
Zulikhan is pronounced zoo-LEEK-khahn (/zuˈlikxan/).
What Zulikhan means
Where Zulikhan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zulikhan comes to Polish name registers from far to the east. It belongs to Chechen and Ingush families, who have given it to girls for generations. The root reaches Zulaykha, the name Islamic tradition assigns to the woman in the Quranic story of Yusuf. The Persian poet Jami retold that story in his poem Yusuf and Zulaikha, completed in 1483. So the name arrives with a literary history behind it.
The Chechen form adds the ending -n, common in women's names of the region. In everyday use Zulikhan means brilliant beauty, radiant. That sense reached the name through the fame of its bearer in the story, not from a plain dictionary root.
On a Polish class register, Zulikhan sits apart from the Zuzannas and Zofias around it. Short. It reads as foreign, and it is. What a Polish reader can hold onto is the gloss: piękna, lśniąca, brilliant beauty, radiant.
How many people are named Zulikhan
1 in 512360 women in Poland is named Zulikhan. 44 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5827 among female names.