Entry № 5962 · Hebrew origin

Lior Lior — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEE-or /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"My light"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Hebrew)

A name that means "my light".

Lior (לִיאוֹר) is a Hebrew name composed of li (to me, mine) and or (light) — meaning "my light." Used for both boys and girls in modern Israel, with the feminine form Liora more common for girls in the diaspora.

Lior is rising in the U.S. and Israel. The Australian-Israeli singer Lior Attar is a male bearer.

My light. The Hebrew compound, two syllables.

The name in its native script.

לִיאוֹר
Transliteration
Līʾôr
Pronunciation
/ liˈɔːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lior stands.

Lior 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.

Liors before her.

Real people
Lior Attar
Australian-Israeli singer (male).
born 1976
In fiction

Names connected to Lior.

The number behind Lior.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lior reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.