Entry № 11997 · Hebrew origin

Zohar Zohar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZO-har /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Radiance, splendor"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Hebrew)

A name that means "radiance, splendor".

Zohar (זוֹהַר) is the Hebrew word for "radiance" or "splendor." The Zohar is also the text of Kabbalistic Jewish mysticism (13th century).

Zohar is widely used in modern Israel as a unisex name.

Radiance. The Kabbalistic mystical text.

The name in its native script.

זוֹהַר
Transliteration
Zōhar
Pronunciation
/ zoʊˈhɑːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zohar stands.

Zohar 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.

Zohars before her.

Real people

In fiction
Zohar
The text of Kabbalah.
13th-century mystical text

Names connected to Zohar.

The number behind Zohar.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zohar reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.