Itamar
From Hebrew, Itamar reads as "island of palms," the *tamar* inside it naming the date tree. It stays rare in Poland: only a couple hundred men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Itamar Pronunciation
Itamar is pronounced ee-TAH-mahr (/iˈtamar/).
What Itamar means
Where Itamar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Itamar comes from Hebrew and belongs to the oldest layers of Jewish scripture. In the Book of Exodus he is the youngest son of Aaron, and his descendants served as priests. The name held that priestly duty long before parents in any country reached for it.
Read closely, Itamar means "island of palms," in Polish "wyspa palm." The usual reading splits it into i, a coast or shore, and tamar, the date palm. That second half ties the name to Tamar, borne by women in the same books. So a single Hebrew word for a desert tree sits inside it.
The name stays rare in Poland. A teacher reading a class register in Gdańsk might pause on it once, then move on for the rest of the year. On an official form at the urząd it looks compact and unfamiliar, four syllables of a language most Polish speakers do not read.
It has no Polish diminutive of its own, no soft ending grafted on. What it keeps instead is the palm: tamar, the date tree, standing at the close of the name like the plant it describes.
How many people are named Itamar
1 in 92009 men in Poland is named Itamar. 232 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2042 among male names.
Itamar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Itamar as a middle name
Itamar is a first name for 232 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3313th, between Italo (9) and Itshak (9).
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#3311 Ismailov9
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#3312 Italo9
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#3313 Itamar9
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#3314 Itshak9
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#3315 Iwar9