Tamila
A Slavic variant of Tamara meaning "perfect, complete." It stays rare in Poland: around 1,300 women carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Tamila Pronunciation
Tamila is pronounced tah-MEE-lah (/taˈmila/).
What Tamila means
Where Tamila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tamila is a Slavic name, at home in Ukrainian and Russian, and it grew out of Tamara. Tamara itself goes back to a Hebrew word for the date palm, a tree that stands tall in dry country and bears fruit for generations. Tamila took that root and softened it for Slavic ears.
The Polish reading gives the name a second meaning: doskonała, complete. That sense of perfection and wholeness came later, attached to the sound rather than the palm tree. A name can gather meanings the way a family gathers photographs.
Tamila stayed close to Ukraine and Russia across the twentieth century, less common than Tamara but familiar in Ukrainian and Russian records. Picture a Polish school. A girl named Tamila on the class register might be the only one, her name read out once and remembered.
The line runs clear: date palm, then Tamara, then Tamila, complete.
How many people are named Tamila
1 in 17779 women in Poland is named Tamila. 1,268 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #861 among female names.
Tamila's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.