Omer
A Hebrew name meaning "sheaf of grain". In Poland it stays rare: most people will never meet one, and the few newborns it goes to each year are nearly all boys.
Omer Pronunciation
Omer is pronounced O-mer (/ˈɔmɛr/).
What Omer means
Where Omer comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Omer comes from Hebrew, where an omer was a measure of harvested grain, a sheaf. In the Torah the word marks a fixed amount, and it gives its name to a Jewish counting practice, Sefirat HaOmer, the counting of the Omer across the forty-nine days from Passover to Shavuot. So the name sits close to the field and the calendar at once.
In Polish the short meaning lands as "miara ziarna," a measure of grain. That association reaches back to farming and to ritual, where a single sheaf stood for a whole season's yield.
The thirty-third day of that count has its own name, Lag BaOmer, marked with bonfires. A boy called Omer carries that word into a Polish school register, where it reads as short and unfamiliar. It has no diminutive here, no Polish variant. Omer stays Omer.
The meaning holds without decoration: Omer is the Hebrew word for a sheaf of grain.
How many people are named Omer
1 in 37515 men in Poland is named Omer. 658 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1156 among male names.
Omer's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1775 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #1156 name among living men, even as it slips to #1775 among newborns.
Where Omer is most popular
Omer is most popular in Greater Poland, 904% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
-
Greater Poland2 boys born+904%
Omer as a middle name
Omer is a first name for 658 men in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1768th, between Neo (24) and Paulus (24).
-
#1766 Miroslav24
-
#1767 Neo24
-
#1768 Omer24
-
#1769 Paulus24
-
#1770 Randall24