Shem Tov UnisexOrigin: HebrewIn Israel: steady
ZoharIn Hebrew: זוהר · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: זֹהַרRomanization: zóhar
Zohar (Hebrew: זוהר) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 13,389 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 129 girls and ranked #144. Its peak year was 2017, with 330 babies.
- People in Israel
- 13,389
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 129
- rank #144
- Peak year
- 2017
- 330 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Zohar
In Hebrew letters the name is זוהר, read right to left. Zohar 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 "zóhar" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- Zohar (a Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century AD)
- a male or female given name, Zohar
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Zohar 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 Zohar
How do you write Zohar in Hebrew?
Zohar is written זוהר in Hebrew (with vowel points: זֹהַר). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "zóhar".
How many people in Israel are named Zohar?
13,389 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name זוהר: 7,662 women and 5,727 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 Zohar a boy's or a girl's name?
Both. In Israel 57% of the people named זוהר are women and 43% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).
What does the name Zohar mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "Zohar (a Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century AD)"
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.