Tomiris
Fewer than 40 women in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns given it since 2000: most Poles will never meet one. The name points two ways, to "brave" and to "family".
Tomiris Pronunciation
Tomiris is pronounced to-MEE-rees (/tɔˈmiris/).
What Tomiris means
Where Tomiris comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tomiris comes to Polish parents from far outside the usual Slavic and Latin sources, an origin classed simply as other. The oldest bearer on record is Tomyris, queen of the Massagetae, whom Herodotus describes defeating the Persian king Cyrus the Great around 530 BC. That is where the sense of "brave" attaches. Her victory made her a figure of nerve and command, and later readers fixed that quality to the name.
The meaning given in Polish is odważna, brave. English glosses sometimes add "family" beside it. Neither reading is a settled etymology, since the source language sits outside the well-mapped families.
On a Polish class register the name still reads as unusual. The name stays rare. A teacher meeting a Tomiris likely pauses on it. The story behind the spelling is old and documented: a queen, a battle, a name that outlived her enemy. Brave is the word it has kept, odważna on the form at the urząd.
How many people are named Tomiris
1 in 609293 women in Poland is named Tomiris. 37 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6522 among female names.