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AdarIn Hebrew: אדר · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: אֲדָרRomanization: adár
Adar (Hebrew: אדר) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 4,083 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 45 girls and ranked #309. Its peak year was 2019, with 178 babies.
- People in Israel
- 4,083
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 45
- rank #309
- Peak year
- 2019
- 178 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Adar
In Hebrew letters the name is אדר, read right to left. Adar is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "adár" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- Adar (the sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan)
- a male or female given name
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Adar by year in Israel
How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Adar
How do you write Adar in Hebrew?
Adar is written אדר in Hebrew (with vowel points: אֲדָר). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "adár".
How many people in Israel are named Adar?
4,083 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name אדר: 2,044 women and 2,039 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.
Is Adar a boy's or a girl's name?
Both. In Israel 50% of the people named אדר are women and 50% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).
What does the name Adar mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "Adar (the sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan)"
Sources
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.