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LotemIn Hebrew: לוטם · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: לֹטֶםRomanization: lótem
Lotem (Hebrew: לוטם) is a unisex name. 2,010 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 38 girls and ranked #335. Its peak year was 2007, with 97 babies.
- People in Israel
- 2,010
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 38
- rank #335
- Peak year
- 2007
- 97 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Lotem
In Hebrew letters the name is לוטם, read right to left. Lotem is the Latin spelling recorded in Wiktionary; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "lótem" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- a unisex given name
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Lotem by year in Israel
How many girls 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).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Lotem
How do you write Lotem in Hebrew?
Lotem is written לוטם in Hebrew (with vowel points: לֹטֶם). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "lótem".
How many people in Israel are named Lotem?
2,010 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name לוטם: 1,548 women and 462 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 Lotem a boy's or a girl's name?
Both. In Israel 77% of the people named לוטם are women and 23% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).
What does the name Lotem mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "a unisex 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.