Gaukhar
It means "jewel, precious stone". Only about two dozen women in Poland carry it, and none has been recorded since 2000, so most Poles will never meet one.
Gaukhar Pronunciation
Gaukhar is pronounced gah-OOK-khahr (/gaˈukxar/).
What Gaukhar means
Where Gaukhar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gaukhar comes from the Persian gawhar, a word for jewel or precious stone. Turkic languages, Kazakh above all, took it in as a name for daughters. The meaning travelled with the sound. A Gaukhar is, quite literally, a jewel.
In Kazakh history the name belongs to Gaukhar Batyr, an eighteenth-century warrior who fought beside the commander Kabanbay during the wars against the Dzungars. Her name meant precious stone while she carried a lance. The pairing is old and untroubled by the contradiction.
Today a girl called Gaukhar might turn up on a class register in Kraków, her family arrived from Kazakhstan. The teacher learns the stress falls late, gau-KHAR. The name sits without a diminutive, without a variant, whole as given. What it says is simple. It says klejnot, a precious stone.
How many people are named Gaukhar
1 in 1024720 women in Poland is named Gaukhar. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9307 among female names.