Lior
From the Hebrew for "my light". It stays rare in Poland, a name most people here have never come across, and it goes to boys and girls alike.
Lior Pronunciation
Lior is pronounced LYOR (/ljɔr/).
What Lior means
Where Lior comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lior comes from Hebrew. It joins li, meaning "to me," with or, meaning "light," and so reads as my light. In Israeli usage the name goes to girls and boys equally, one of a small family of names built on the word or.
The cultural home of Lior is Jewish. It rose in modern Hebrew across the twentieth century, when parents in Israel began drawing new given names straight from the working vocabulary of the language rather than from the older biblical roster. That same word or appears in the opening lines of Genesis, at the separation of light from darkness. A child called Lior carries the plain Hebrew word for daylight.
There are no Polish diminutives for it, no zdrobnienia to soften it on a class register. It arrives whole. A teacher reading Lior at the start of term meets a name that says exactly what it means: moje światło, my light.
How many people are named Lior
1 in 86773 men in Poland is named Lior. 366 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1564 among male names.
Lior's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Lior as a middle name
Lior is a first name for 366 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2330th, between Levent (16) and Marcello (16).
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#2328 Leroy16
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#2329 Levent16
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#2330 Lior16
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#2331 Marcello16
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#2332 Morfeusz16