Ophir
Barely 40 people in Poland carry it, women and men in near-equal share: most here have never met one. The root is Hebrew, from Ophir, a name tied to the sense of gold and wealth.
Ophir Pronunciation
What Ophir means
Where Ophir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ophir comes from Hebrew, and it names gold before it names a person. In the Hebrew Bible, Ophir is a place, a distant port whose ships brought gold to King Solomon (1 Kings 9:28). The gold of Ophir became a byword for the finest wealth. The name arrived already meaning gold, wealth, złoto in Polish.
As a given name, Ophir stays close to that biblical source. It belongs to Jewish naming, and in modern Israel it is worn by men and women alike. It has no diminutive, no softened variant. The name stands as it is, five letters and an old word for gold.
On a Polish class register, Ophir would sit apart from the Jans and Zofias. It reads as foreign here, and it keeps its origin visible. The meaning does not hide. Ophir is gold.
How many people are named Ophir
1 in 821007 men in Poland is named Ophir. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5955 among male names.