Ofri
Rare enough that most Poles will never meet one: barely a hundred carry it, nearly all of them women. Hebrew at root, from a word meaning "my fawn", a young deer.
Ofri Pronunciation
Ofri is pronounced OF-ree (/ˈɔfri/).
What Ofri means
Where Ofri comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ofri comes from Hebrew, built on the noun `ofer`, a fawn or young deer, with the possessive ending `-i`. So the name reads as a small declaration: my fawn. The word for the animal carries a sense of grace and quickness, and the personal ending turns a creature of the field into something claimed and named.
The fawn is not a stray image in Hebrew. The Song of Songs returns to the young deer more than once, comparing the beloved to `ofer ha-ayalim`, a fawn among the harts. Ofri sits close to that older poetry, keeping the animal at the root of the sound.
In Israel the name spread in the later twentieth century, when nature words gained ground as given names. It is worn by women and by men.
A Polish teacher reading a class register meets Ofri without a Polish name-day to attach to it. No source records a Polish meaning, and the name keeps its Hebrew one instead. That meaning stays literal and small: my fawn.
How many people are named Ofri
1 in 245042 women in Poland is named Ofri. 105 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3339 among female names.
Ofri's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.