Tamar
A Hebrew name meaning "date palm". Fewer than 800 women in Poland carry it, and the small run of births it saw in the 2010s has since stopped: most Poles have never met one.
Tamar Pronunciation
Tamar is pronounced TAH-mahr (/ˈtamar/).
What Tamar means
Where Tamar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tamar begins in Hebrew as the word for the date palm, the tree whose fruit fed the ancient Near East. The short meaning stays close to that root: palma, a tall tree that bears sweetly in dry country.
The name belongs to the Jewish tradition, and the Hebrew Bible gives it to more than one woman. In Genesis 38, Tamar is the daughter-in-law of Judah, a woman who presses her own claim and wins it. In the second book of Samuel, Tamar is a daughter of King David. Both women are real. The text lets them speak and act.
On a Polish class register today, Tamar sits among names of many origins, short and easy to call at roll. It comes down to us with no diminutive and no cross-gender pair. What it does carry is the palm: the date-bearing tree, Hebrew tamar, palma.
How many people are named Tamar
1 in 28977 women in Poland is named Tamar. 781 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1060 among female names.
Tamar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Tamar as a middle name
Tamar is a first name for 781 women in Poland and a middle name for another 27, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1388th, between Stenia (27) and Tessa (27).
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#1386 Sancja27
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#1387 Stenia27
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#1388 Tamar27
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#1389 Tessa27
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#1390 Ula27