Gohar
The name means "jewel" or "gemstone". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 100 people carry it, nearly all of them women, and most Poles have never met one.
Gohar Pronunciation
Gohar is pronounced GO-khahr (/ˈgɔxar/).
What Gohar means
Where Gohar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gohar comes from Persian, where the word gohar names a jewel or a gemstone. The meaning sits in the open. A parent reading it finds no riddle. In Polish the sense lands as klejnot, kamień szlachetny, the same hard bright thing held in the hand.
The name settled into Armenian, where it became a common women's name. One bearer gives it a face. Gohar Gasparyan, the Armenian soprano who lived from 1924 to 2007, sang under that name for decades and made it known across the Soviet stage. Her Gohar was a working name, printed on programs and records.
In a Polish class register, Gohar would sit near Gabriela and Hanna, a short entry the teacher learns on the first day. It has no name-day in the Polish calendar. What stays is the plain meaning, the gemstone that Persian handed on and Armenian kept: klejnot.
How many people are named Gohar
1 in 253301 women in Poland is named Gohar. 94 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3582 among female names.
Gohar as a middle name
Gohar is a first name for 94 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5926th, between Godysława (2) and Goharik (2).
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#5924 Glenkora2
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#5925 Godysława2
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#5926 Gohar2
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#5927 Goharik2
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#5928 Goja2