Inbar
Hebrew for "amber", the fossil resin. It barely registers in Poland: with about 130 people carrying it, mostly women, most Poles will never meet an Inbar.
Inbar Pronunciation
Inbar is pronounced EEN-bahr (/ˈinbar/).
What Inbar means
Where Inbar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Inbar begins in Hebrew. The word ענבר, inbar, names amber, the fossil resin. In Polish that resin is bursztyn, gathered along the Baltic for thousands of years. The name is modern Hebrew and reads as Jewish. It carries no diminutives and no separate variants; you meet it whole.
Amber is old plant sap turned to stone. It holds insects and leaves from forests long gone. To call a child Inbar links her to that slow gold. The sense fits a name used in Israel from the twentieth century onward, given to girls and sometimes to boys. The gender lines stay loose.
On a Polish class register, Inbar would sit near Ida and Irena, unusual but clear once you know the word behind it. A teacher reading it aloud need only think of bursztyn.
How many people are named Inbar
1 in 199503 women in Poland is named Inbar. 128 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2942 among female names.
Inbar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Inbar as a middle name
Inbar is a first name for 128 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6040th, between Inbal (2) and Indrajit (2).
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