Yahor
At root it means "farmer", an earth-worker, and its roots run back to Hebrew. Only about 1,800 men in Poland carry it, all of them male, few enough that most Poles have never met a Yahor.
Yahor Pronunciation
Yahor is pronounced ih-AH-khor (/ɨˈaxɔr/).
What Yahor means
Where Yahor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Yahor reaches back to a Hebrew root. What has clung to it across generations is a working meaning: farmer, the one who turns the soil. Bearers have carried that sense of labor and land rather than any courtly grandeur.
The idea of the earth-worker was not decoration. It named a life. To read Yahor on a school register is to meet a name with its feet on the ground, close to the field and the season.
Meanings like this settle onto a name slowly. The Hebrew beginning gives Yahor its oldest layer, and the sense of farmer, of one who works the earth, is what most people hear in it now. Short name, solid weight. It ends where it started, with the soil.
How many people are named Yahor
1 in 11709 men in Poland is named Yahor. 1,823 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #734 among male names.
Yahor's popularity over time
0 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.