Reem
From Hebrew, where it means "white gazelle". Fewer than fifty people in Poland carry it, women and men alike, so meeting one is something you remember.
Reem Pronunciation
What Reem means
Where Reem comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Reem begins in Hebrew, where the old word re'em named a strong wild animal of the Bible. Old translators once read that animal as a unicorn. Modern scholars call it a wild ox. Arabic took the sound its own way. There the word rim, written Reem in Latin letters, means the white gazelle of the desert.
That gazelle sits behind the name today. In classical Arabic poetry the gazelle stood for grace and for dark, wide eyes. The animal itself is pale and fast, native to the sand of Arabia. The meaning most people give Reem now is simply gazela, and the white came attached from the Arabic word for the creature.
Reem stands on its own. It has no diminutive and no boyish twin. On a class register it reads short and plain, four letters. A teacher reading the list aloud lands on a single beat.
The name means gazela.
How many people are named Reem
1 in 663054 women in Poland is named Reem. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5889 among female names.
Reem as a middle name
Reem is a first name for 43 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6619th, between Reef (2) and Reginaldo (2).
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#6617 Razan2
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#6618 Reef2
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#6619 Reem2
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#6620 Reginaldo2
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#6621 Rejna2