Yotam
Hebrew in origin, carrying the sense that "God is perfect". In Poland it stays a rarity: only around 130 men hold it, all of them, and most Poles have never met one.
Yotam Pronunciation
Yotam is pronounced ih-O-tahm (/ɨˈɔtam/).
What Yotam means
Where Yotam comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yotam comes from Hebrew, where it joins the divine name YHWH to a word for whole or complete. The sense it carries is "God is perfect." In the Hebrew Bible the name belongs to Jotham, youngest son of Gideon, who survives the slaughter of his brothers in Judges 9 and answers with a sharp fable about trees choosing themselves a king. A second Jotham later rules Judah, recorded in 2 Kings 15.
The name stayed Jewish across its long life. Its short Polish reading, "Jahwe jest doskonały," keeps the same claim about wholeness. Yotam has no diminutive and no variant, so it arrives plain, one form only.
The best-known bearer today is Yotam Ottolenghi, the Jerusalem-born cook and writer whose books sell far beyond Israel. In a Polish class register the name would stand out among the Jakubs and Antonis. It reads short. The origin stays Hebrew, and the meaning holds: God is complete.
How many people are named Yotam
1 in 159300 men in Poland is named Yotam. 134 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2869 among male names.
Yotam's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.