Merab
A Hebrew name meaning "abundant". Only a few hundred men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet a Merab: no boys have been given the name in years.
Merab Pronunciation
Merab is pronounced ME-rahp (/ˈmɛrap/).
What Merab means
Where Merab comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Merab is a Hebrew name, and the sense handed down for it is abundant. Behind it sits a Semitic root tied to increase and plenty, the same family that gives Hebrew its words for growing large in number. It reads as a wish for fullness rather than a label for one trait.
The oldest bearer on record is Merab, the elder daughter of King Saul in the first book of Samuel. She was promised to David and then married off to another man. So the name enters Scripture attached to a woman, though it stays rare enough on a Polish class register to make a teacher pause at the roll call.
There are no Polish diminutives here, no imieniny fixed in the calendar. The name stays rare. What holds is the Hebrew root and its plain reading: abundant.
How many people are named Merab
1 in 62234 men in Poland is named Merab. 343 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1617 among male names.