Tamari
Fewer than 250 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet a Tamari. The name comes from Hebrew tamar, the date palm, a tree that once gave food and shade in dry country.
Tamari Pronunciation
Tamari is pronounced tah-MAH-ree (/taˈmari/).
What Tamari means
Where Tamari comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tamari grows from the Hebrew word tamar, which names the date palm. In the dry lands of the ancient Near East that tree gave food and shade, and its name passed to daughters. The Polish gloss stays plain: palma daktylowa, a date palm.
The Hebrew Bible names two women called Tamar. One appears in the Book of Genesis, another among the children of King David. Readers later tied the date palm to what is upright and fruitful, and that reading settled onto the name over the following centuries. The meaning of the root never moved.
Tamari reads as a rounder, softer form of that old word. On a Polish class register it would sit among names of a dozen origins, and few classmates would guess the desert tree behind it. Its sense has not drifted far. The root underneath is one word: tamar, the date palm.
How many people are named Tamari
1 in 95525 women in Poland is named Tamari. 238 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2012 among female names.