Yoram
Barely 91 men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met a Yoram. The name is Hebrew, from words meaning "the lord is exalted".
Yoram Pronunciation
Yoram is pronounced ih-O-rahm (/ɨˈɔram/).
What Yoram means
Where Yoram comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yoram comes from Hebrew. It fuses the divine name with the verb ram, to rise or be lifted high, and the whole reads as "the Lord is exalted." That reading sits close to the root. It did not arrive as a later gloss. The same root, ram, stands inside other Hebrew names, among them Abiram.
The name belongs to the Hebrew Bible. In the books of Kings, Yoram, also written Joram, names a king of Israel and, in a separate line, a king of Judah in the ninth century BCE. Both reigns are short. Both end in violence. The name survived its royal bearers and stayed in Jewish use for a long time after them.
In modern Hebrew, Yoram returned as an everyday given name, carried by writers and public figures across the last century. A Polish reader meeting it on a class register would find no local nickname to soften it, since the name travels without diminutives or variants. What arrives is the plain sense it began with: pan jest wywyższony, the Lord is exalted.
How many people are named Yoram
1 in 234573 men in Poland is named Yoram. 91 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3688 among male names.
Yoram as a middle name
Yoram is a first name for 91 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3725th, between Yoon (8) and Yosi (8).
-
#3723 Yoav8
-
#3724 Yoon8
-
#3725 Yoram8
-
#3726 Yosi8
-
#3727 Yuan8