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OrIn Hebrew: אור · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: אוֹר
Or (Hebrew: אור) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 32,311 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 400 boys and ranked #46. Its peak year was 1991, with 1,016 babies.
- People in Israel
- 32,311
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 400
- rank #46
- Peak year
- 1991
- 1,016 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Or
In Hebrew letters the name is אור, read right to left. Or is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms.
We have no sourced English explanation of this name yet, so we do not guess one. The Hebrew page has our Hebrew notes when there are any.
Or by year in Israel
How many boys 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 Or
How do you write Or in Hebrew?
Or is written אור in Hebrew (with vowel points: אוֹר). Hebrew is read right to left.
How many people in Israel are named Or?
32,311 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name אור: 11,639 women and 20,672 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 Or a boy's or a girl's name?
Both. In Israel 36% of the people named אור are women and 64% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).
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.