Zamin
Persian in root, from a word for earth and land. Fewer than thirty men in Poland carry it and none have been recorded since 2000, so most Poles will never meet one.
Zamin Pronunciation
Zamin is pronounced ZAH-meen (/ˈzamin/).
What Zamin means
Where Zamin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zamin comes from the Persian word زمین, meaning earth or ground. The short meaning stays constant across languages: ziemia, grunt, the soil under a person's feet. Persian carried this word far, and it settled into Arabic-speaking Muslim communities, where Zamin is given as a name today.
Linguists trace zamin to an old Indo-Iranian root for earth. The Avestan form zam sits in the same family, alongside Latin humus and Greek chthon. The name reaches back to one of the oldest words people had for the ground beneath them.
On a Polish class register, Zamin stands apart from the Antonis and the Zuzannas. Read it once. The name has no established diminutives and no Polish variants. Written on a form at the urząd, its meaning needs no translation: Zamin, the earth itself.
How many people are named Zamin
1 in 790600 men in Poland is named Zamin. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8203 among male names.