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Boy's nameOrigin: biblicalIn Israel: falling

ItamarIn Hebrew: איתמר · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: אִיתָמָרRomanization: ítamar

Itamar (Hebrew: איתמר) is a boy's name of biblical origin. 21,541 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 483 boys and ranked #40. Its peak year was 2013, with 955 babies.

People in Israel
21,541
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
483
rank #40
Peak year
2013
955 babies
USA
—
not in the SSA list

Writing and saying Itamar

In Hebrew letters the name is איתמר, read right to left. Itamar is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "ítamar" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a male given name
  • Itamar (a settlement in the West Bank, Judea and Samaria Area district, Israel)

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Itamar by year in Israel

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Itamar: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Itamar

How do you write Itamar in Hebrew?

Itamar is written איתמר in Hebrew (with vowel points: אִיתָמָר). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "ítamar".

How many people in Israel are named Itamar?

21,541 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name איתמר: 7 women and 21,534 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Itamar a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 100.0% of the people named איתמר are men.

What does the name Itamar mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male given name"

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.