Palmer
Usually a girl's name
- Literal meaning
- Surname for a pilgrim back from the Holy Land, who carried a palm branch Well attested
- Origin
- English surname, from Old French
- Popularity
US 2025: #232 (girls) · England and Wales 2025: #1512
Popularity: US Social Security Administration 2025; Office for National Statistics 2025, England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This name's meaning doesn't link to one of the five elements, so it isn't matched to a chart here.
Sources
- Wiktionary: Palmer
- Online Etymology Dictionary: palmer
- Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, A Dictionary of First Names (OUP, 2006): Palmer, Oxford Reference summary
- Dictionary of American Family Names (OUP, 2nd ed., 2022): Palmer, Ancestry copy
- Wikipedia: Palmer (given name), citing Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges