Umer
A Hebrew name meaning "long-lived, flourishing". In Poland it's about as rare as a name gets: roughly 20 men carry it, and no boys have been given it since 2000.
Umer Pronunciation
Umer is pronounced OO-mer (/ˈumɛr/).
What Umer means
Where Umer comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Umer traces back to a Hebrew root, though the people most likely to carry it today live in the Arabic-speaking world. The two threads sit close. A Hebrew beginning gathered an Arabic life around it, and the name settled into homes far from where it started.
Its short meaning points toward long life and flourishing. That sense of thriving, of years piling up in good health, became attached to Umer over time rather than sitting at the origin as a plain definition. The connection to abundance, długowieczność and dostatek in Polish, reads as a wish more than a translation.
Umer keeps to itself. It has no diminutives, no cross-gender pair, no cluster of variants trailing behind. On a Polish class register, it would stand as a single clean entry, four letters, easy to read aloud in a Kraków classroom. What the name offers is its meaning: long-lived, flourishing.
How many people are named Umer
1 in 1067309 men in Poland is named Umer. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10104 among male names.
Umer as a middle name
Umer is a first name for 20 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 80/20 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5081st, between Ufuk (5) and Ung (5).
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#5079 Ty5
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#5080 Ufuk5
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#5081 Umer5
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#5082 Ung5
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#5083 Valerii5