Wilmar
Fewer than thirty men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it in years: this is a name most Poles will never meet. It comes from Germanic roots meaning "will" and "famous".
Wilmar Pronunciation
Wilmar is pronounced VEEL-mahr (/ˈvilmar/).
What Wilmar means
Where Wilmar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wilmar comes from Germanic roots. The first part, wil, means will or desire. The second, mar, means famous or renowned. Together they give the meaning this site records: will, famous.
Those two building blocks travel far. The wil- element opens Wilhelm, while the -mar ending closes Waldemar. So Wilmar keeps company with old names that praised a person for resolve and for a reputation others knew.
For a Polish reader the sense lands as wola, sławny. The name stays rare here. On a Polish class register, Wilmar sits oddly next to Jakub and Antoni, and a teacher may pause before reading it aloud. That rarity is part of what the name offers now.
Wilmar has no established name-day and no standard Polish diminutive on record. What it does hold is legible: the Germanic wil for will and mar for famous.
How many people are named Wilmar
1 in 762364 men in Poland is named Wilmar. 28 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7962 among male names.