Palmira is from the Italian Palmira — from the ancient Syrian city Palmyra (Palmurra, Tadmor) — from the Aramaic tadmor (palm). Palmira is one of the Italian feminine names — central to traditional southern Italian heritage + the Mediterranean palm-naming convention. Refers to the ancient Syrian oasis city of Palmyra (c.
Palmira is a compound name. Its parts are mirŭ — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.
Palmira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Palmira reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.