Hagar
A Hebrew name meaning "flight". In Poland it stays almost unknown: around 60 women carry it and most Poles have never met one, with no newborn girls given the name in years.
Hagar Pronunciation
Hagar is pronounced KHAH-gahr (/ˈxagar/).
What Hagar means
Where Hagar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hagar comes from Hebrew, and its short meaning is flight. The oldest bearer sits in the Book of Genesis. She is the Egyptian servant of Sarah and the mother of Ishmael. Her name reads like a record of what happened to her.
Twice she goes into the wilderness. First she flees Sarah's harshness. Later she is sent off with her son and a skin of water, and an angel finds her by a spring. The word behind the name points to that leaving.
The Polish gloss holds the same sense: uciekinierka, zbieg, a woman who runs. Hagar has no Polish diminutives and no softened court forms. It stays close to its Hebrew shape. Within Jewish tradition the name belongs to her and to the reading of Genesis. A child called Hagar takes the plainest rendering of the Hebrew: flight.
How many people are named Hagar
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Hagar. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4757 among female names.
Hagar as a middle name
Hagar is a first name for 60 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 95/5 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4833rd, between Hafsa (3) and Halley (3).
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