Tomer
A Hebrew name meaning "palm tree." Fewer than 500 men in Poland carry it and none were registered last year, so meeting a Tomer here would stay with you.
Tomer Pronunciation
Tomer is pronounced TO-mer (/ˈtɔmɛr/).
What Tomer means
Where Tomer comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tomer begins in Hebrew, where the word תומר names the date palm, the tall tree that fruits in desert heat. The short meaning in English is simply "palm tree," in Polish "palma." It belongs to Jewish naming tradition, and it stays close to its plain sense: a tree, and a good one.
The palm has old associations in Hebrew scripture. In the Book of Judges, the prophet Deborah judged Israel while sitting beneath a palm. Centuries later the sixteenth-century scholar Moshe Cordovero wrote an ethical treatise called Tomer Devorah, "The Palm Tree of Deborah," and the title kept the word alive in study halls for generations. Anyone named Tomer stands near that long reading.
The name has no diminutives or variants to soften it. It is short already. In a Polish class register it would sit among names of Latin and Slavic root, marking a Hebrew line that reaches back to a fruit-bearing tree. What it means has not drifted. Tomer still means palm.
How many people are named Tomer
1 in 52577 men in Poland is named Tomer. 419 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1453 among male names.
Tomer's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Tomer as a middle name
Tomer is a first name for 419 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8954th, between Tolimir (2) and Tomi (2).
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#8954 Tomer2
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#8956 Tomio2