Om
The name carries the meaning "sacred syllable." In Poland it stays rare: only about 30 men use it, and boys almost never receive it now.
Om Pronunciation
Om is pronounced OM (/ɔm/).
What Om means
Where Om comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Om comes from Sanskrit, where it names a single sacred syllable. Hindu texts place it at the opening and closing of prayer, and the Upanishads treat the sound itself as an object of meditation. The short meaning stays close to that source: sacred syllable, święta sylaba in Polish. It is one of the shortest names a child can carry, two letters on a form.
On a Polish class register, Om would sit as something unusual next to Antoni and Zofia. The name arrived in Europe with interest in yoga and Indian philosophy, so most Polish bearers are recent. It has no name-day, no Polish saint, no diminutive of its own.
That smallness is the point. A syllable meant to hold everything shrinks to fit a nametag. The meaning was never a translation of a word. Om is the sound first, and the sense of the sacred sits inside the sound. The Polish gloss keeps it plain: święta sylaba, sacred syllable.
How many people are named Om
1 in 688587 men in Poland is named Om. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7356 among male names.
Om as a middle name
Om is a first name for 31 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6701st, between Oluwapelumi (3) and Omri (3).