Entry № 3969 · Hebrew origin

Hagar Hagar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAY-gar /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Flight, stranger"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "flight, stranger".

Hagar (הָגָר) is the Egyptian handmaid of Sarah in the Book of Genesis — mother of Ishmael, ancestor of the Arab peoples in Islamic tradition. After being expelled, she was promised by God that Ishmael would father a great nation.

Hagar is widely used in religious families across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.

Sarah's handmaid. Mother of Ishmael.

The name in its native script.

הָגָר
Transliteration
Hāgār
Pronunciation
/ ˈheɪ.ɡɑːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hagar stands.

Hagar 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.

Hagars before her.

Real people
Hagar
Common in religious families.
In fiction
Hagar Shipley
Heroine of Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel.
1964 novel

Names connected to Hagar.

The number behind Hagar.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hagar reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.