Omri
A Hebrew name whose short sense, "servant," reads more like later interpretation than settled root. In Poland it stays rare, carried by fewer than 300 people and almost entirely by men.
Omri Pronunciation
Omri is pronounced OM-ree (/ˈɔmri/).
What Omri means
Where Omri comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Omri comes from Hebrew, a name long tied to Jewish tradition. Its short meaning is given as "servant," though that sense reads more like interpretation than settled origin, and scholars have traced the roots in more than one direction. What stays fixed is the language it grew from and the people who kept it in use.
The oldest famous Omri was a king. He ruled the northern kingdom of Israel and appears in the biblical Book of Kings. His name also reached beyond scripture: the Mesha Stele, a ninth-century BCE inscription found in what is now Jordan, speaks of the "house of Omri." Few Hebrew names can point to stone that old.
In modern Israel the name stayed common, worn by soldiers, writers, and the basketball player Omri Casspi. On a Polish class register it would stand out at once, four letters with no saint's day behind it. For a Polish family it arrives without a name-day, bringing only its Hebrew root and that contested sense of "servant."
How many people are named Omri
1 in 79948 men in Poland is named Omri. 272 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1846 among male names.
Omri's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Omri as a middle name
Omri is a first name for 272 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6702nd, between Om (3) and Oreste (3).
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