Zamir
Hebrew for "nightingale, singer". In Poland it stays rare: about 83 men carry it, all of them, so most Poles have never met one.
Zamir Pronunciation
Zamir is pronounced ZAH-meer (/ˈzamir/).
What Zamir means
Where Zamir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zamir comes from Hebrew, where זָמִיר names the nightingale, and from the bird's song it came to mean the singer. The word sang through Hebrew poetry before it settled onto a person. So the plain meaning stays small and exact: nightingale, singer.
In Arabic the name brushes against a different word, ḍamīr, meaning conscience. That overlap gave Zamir a second reading among Arabic and Jewish speakers, where the sound points toward the heart and what it knows. The Polish gloss keeps both senses: sumienie, serce. The idea of conscience was attached later. The Hebrew root stays with the bird.
Zamir has no diminutives to soften it. It arrives whole, five letters, easy on a class register in a Polish school. A boy named Zamir spells it once and is understood.
The name holds two readings at the same time. One is a nightingale in a line of Hebrew verse. The other is the Arabic word for conscience, sumienie.
How many people are named Zamir
1 in 257183 men in Poland is named Zamir. 83 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3907 among male names.
Zamir's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Zamir as a middle name
Zamir is a first name for 83 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4527th, between Zakariya (6) and Zenek (6).
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#4525 Zacharias6
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#4526 Zakariya6
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#4527 Zamir6
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#4528 Zenek6
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#4529 Étienne6