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Gohar Gohar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ goh-HAR /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Jewel / gem (Gohar Shad Mughal queen)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "jewel / gem (gohar shad mughal queen)".

Gohar is from the Persian گوهر (Gōhar — jewel, gem, precious essence). Gohar is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian + Muslim heritage. Persian feminine name reflecting Persian Timurid heritage.

Jewel / gem (Persian).

The name in its native script.

گوهر
Transliteration
Gōhar
Pronunciation
/ ɡoʊˈhɑːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gohar stands.

Gohar does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gohars before her.

Real people
Gohar Shad Begum
Timurid queen + chief wife of Shah Rukh + mother of Ulugh Beg + commissioned Goharshad Mosque 1418 CE Mashhad + Goharshad Madrasa Herat.
c. 1378 – 1457
In fiction
Gohar
Persian jewel + Sufi mystical gohar-e maqsood precious goal.

Names connected to Gohar.

The number behind Gohar.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gohar reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.