Umair
Only about 20 men in Poland carry it, and the birth register shows none given the name this century. It comes from Arabic, meaning long-lived, or simply life.
Umair Pronunciation
Umair is pronounced oo-MAH-eer (/uˈmair/).
What Umair means
Where Umair comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Umair comes from Arabic. It grows from the same root that gives words for life and long living. The name itself is a diminutive, a smaller form of the older names Amr and Umar. Read plainly, it wishes long days on the person who holds it.
Early Islamic history records an Umair ibn Sa'd al-Ansari, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad. The caliph Umar appointed him governor of Homs, and the sources remember him for plain living and honesty. The name moved with people like him across centuries of Arabic use, so it is documented rather than merely old.
In a Polish school register today, Umair sits among names with Slavic roots, a marker of an Arabic-speaking family. It has no diminutive of its own in Polish, and no obvious variant. What stays fixed is the short sense: long-lived, life.
How many people are named Umair
1 in 1067309 men in Poland is named Umair. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10103 among male names.
Umair as a middle name
Umair is a first name for 20 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 74/26 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4069th, between Ulf (7) and Un (7).
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#4067 Ugur7
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#4068 Ulf7
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#4069 Umair7
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#4070 Un7
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#4071 Urlich7