Hira
A truly unisex name in Poland: the roughly 28 people who carry it split evenly between women and men. Hebrew at root, meaning "diamond", and rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Hira Pronunciation
Hira is pronounced KHEE-rah (/ˈxira/).
What Hira means
Where Hira comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hira means diamond. The word reaches back to Hebrew roots, then settled among Arabic-speaking families, where it reads plainly as the hardest and brightest of stones. The short meaning stays close to the surface, so a child rarely has to explain it twice.
There is a second Hira known across the Muslim world. Ghar Hira is the cave near Mecca where, in Islamic tradition, Muhammad received the first revelation. The name a girl carries and the name of that mountain cave sound alike, and many families hear the link.
Hira travels light. It has no diminutives, no cross-gender twin, no shortened form waiting on a class register. What you see is the whole name. On a Polish school list it stands among the Zofias and Amelias, four letters, easy to read on the first try. The meaning underneath holds the same in Warsaw as in Karachi. Diamond.
How many people are named Hira
1 in 1610274 women in Poland is named Hira. 28 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7850 among female names.
Hira as a middle name
Hira is a first name for 28 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 90/10 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4853rd, between Hildur (3) and Hortense (3).
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#4851 Higina3
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#4852 Hildur3
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#4853 Hira3
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#4854 Hortense3
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#4855 Houda3