Xiomara
Its roots trace to a name meaning "famous in battle". In Poland it's barely present: about a dozen women carry it, and no newborn girls have been recorded since 2000.
Xiomara Pronunciation
What Xiomara means
Where Xiomara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Xiomara reached Spanish through a Germanic name, Guiomar. The older form joins a word for war with a word for fame, giving the sense famous in battle. Spanish speakers took it up, and it spread more widely across Latin America than across Spain.
The meaning is famous in battle. That sense sits close to the root, since the two Germanic parts name war and renown. Xiomara Castro has served as president of Honduras since 2022, a public bearer of the name.
A Xiomara on a Polish class register stands out, since the name keeps no diminutive and no local variant. On the roll she stays Xiomara, the four syllables Spanish preserved from Guiomar. It still means sławna w bitwie, famous in battle.
How many people are named Xiomara
1 in 1878653 women in Poland is named Xiomara. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14665 among female names.
Xiomara as a middle name
Xiomara is a first name for 12 women in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 39/61 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1689th, between Weronica (19) and Yaren (19).
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#1687 Tanatswa19
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#1688 Weronica19
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#1689 Xiomara19
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#1690 Yaren19
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#1691 Zelda19