Yam
A Hebrew name meaning "sea". Just over 70 people in Poland carry it, women and men in fairly even measure, so most Poles have never met one.
Yam Pronunciation
Yam is pronounced IH-ahm (/ˈɨam/).
What Yam means
Where Yam comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yam comes from Hebrew. The word ים means sea. In the Hebrew Bible it names the water itself, from the crossing of the Red Sea to the open Mediterranean. As a given name it holds onto that plain meaning, sea, morze in Polish, without dressing it up.
There is an older layer worth naming. In Canaanite texts from Ugarit, written more than three thousand years ago, Yam is the god of the sea who fights the storm-god Baal. A child called Yam today keeps none of that combat. What survives is the noun.
The name sits mostly within Jewish families, and it stays short, three letters with no diminutive and no variant. If an official at the urząd asks what it means, the answer is one word: sea.
How many people are named Yam
1 in 410504 men in Poland is named Yam. 72 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4258 among male names.
Yam as a middle name
Yam is a first name for 72 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7009th, between Yacoub (3) and Yamir (3).
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