Shachar
A Hebrew name meaning "dawn". In Poland it belongs to men and women alike, yet stays so rare that most people will never meet one: only about 120 carry it in all.
Shachar Pronunciation
What Shachar means
Where Shachar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shachar comes from Hebrew, where the word means dawn, the first light before the sun is up. It belongs to the Jewish naming tradition, and in Israel it is given to girls and boys alike, since the word itself has no gender. A Polish reader meets it as świt.
The word is old. It appears in the Hebrew Bible, in Psalm 139, in the phrase kanfei shachar, the wings of the dawn. Scholars of ancient Ugaritic texts also record a dawn figure called Shahar, set beside a dusk counterpart, which carries the root far back into the languages of the region.
Shachar has no diminutives or variant spellings in common use. It stays as it is.
On a Polish class register the name would stand among the Zuzannas and Jakubs as a Hebrew noun set down whole. What it offers a reader here is its sense. Shachar is dawn, świt, the light that arrives before the day.
How many people are named Shachar
1 in 273669 men in Poland is named Shachar. 122 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3047 among male names.
Shachar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.