Entry № 10976 · Polish origin

Urszula Urszula — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OOR-shoo-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Polish
Meaning
"Little bear (Polish Ursula)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Polish)

A name that means "little bear (polish ursula)".

Urszula is the Polish form of Ursula — Latin ursa (bear), "little bear."

Urszula Kozioł (born 1931) is the major Polish poet.

Little bear. The Polish Ursula.

The name in its native script.

Urszula
Transliteration
Urszula
Pronunciation
/ ˈʊr.ʃuː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Urszula stands.

Urszula does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Urszulas before her.

Real people
Urszula Kozioł
Polish poet.
born 1931
In fiction
Urszula
Common in Polish fiction.

Names connected to Urszula.

The number behind Urszula.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Urszula reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.