Hagit
Fewer than 60 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A Hebrew name at root, meaning "festive".
Hagit Pronunciation
Hagit is pronounced KHAH-geet (/ˈxagit/).
What Hagit means
Where Hagit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hagit begins in Hebrew, in the root chag, the word for a feast or festival. That root gives the name its meaning: festive. The same root sits behind the names of the major pilgrimage feasts. It is a cousin of the Arabic hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
The name has a documented bearer in the Hebrew Bible. Haggith was a wife of King David and the mother of Adonijah, named in 2 Samuel 3:4 and again in 1 Kings 1:5. Her son later reached for the throne. The name outlived that story and stayed in use among Hebrew speakers.
In Poland, Hagit reads as clearly Jewish, and it keeps its origin visible. It has no Polish diminutive and no cross-gender variant. A teacher reading a class register would find it whole, with nothing softened into a nickname. What the name gives is its plain sense, held from the root: festive.
How many people are named Hagit
1 in 402568 women in Poland is named Hagit. 56 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4957 among female names.