Shahar
Hebrew for dawn, the first light before the sun clears the horizon. Almost no one in Poland carries it, and those who do split fairly evenly between women and men.
Shahar Pronunciation
What Shahar means
Where Shahar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shahar comes from Hebrew, where שַׁחַר means dawn, the first light that arrives before the sun. Świt, in Polish.
In the Hebrew Bible the word surfaces in Isaiah, in the phrase ben shachar, son of the dawn, attached to the morning star. Older still, tablets from the city of Ugarit name Shachar as a god of the dawn, twinned with Shalim, the dusk. The name reaches back before Israel into the poetry of the Levant.
Among Jewish families it kept close to that first meaning. In modern Israel Shahar is given to girls and boys alike, still holding the plain sense of daybreak. A Polish teacher reading a class register would meet it only rarely. The name means dawn, and it says so plainly.
How many people are named Shahar
1 in 138612 men in Poland is named Shahar. 248 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1954 among male names.
Shahar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Shahar as a middle name
Shahar is a first name for 248 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3846th, between Sezen (5) and Shelley (5).
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#3844 Seon5
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#3845 Sezen5
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#3846 Shahar5
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#3847 Shelley5
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#3848 Sherin5