Shahar

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shahar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 901K(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 562as שחר
  • PLPoland1 in 135K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shahar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Israel (inferred from the name graph)

≈15,000 named שחר, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
164 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 135K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

שחרHebrew(measured from records)
ShacharLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled שחר in IL Israel, ET Ethiopia, Shachar in US United States, CY Cyprus, שחור in PL Poland and שכר in RO Romania.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shahar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Shahar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel#159≈15,000 est.≈1 in 5628.7Kשחר114
ET Ethiopia—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 47K—שחר3
US United States—3691 in 901K261Shachar164
PL Poland—2831 in 135K174שחור3
RO Romania—≈100 est.≈1 in 208K—שכר6
CY Cyprus—≈57 est.≈1 in 22K—Shachar6

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shahar is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Shaḥar

  • Bangla given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Shohor, Shahor, Shaharu, শহর, Sohor

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Shaḥar

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Shahar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Jewish: modern Hebrew name meaning ‘dawn’.

    as a word

  • In Uzbek, city

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Shulamith Shahar, b. 1928Yuval Shahar, b. 1958Galili Shahar, b. 1970Shahar Kober, b. 1979Guy Shahar, b. 1982Shahar Peer, b. 1987Shachar Sagiv, b. 1994Shahar Nakav, b. 1997Shahar Tavoch, b. 1999Ido Shahar, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Shahar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020261#78,873
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010183#98,982
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000133#120,330
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202639—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202639—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—39#59,604
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—39#59,092
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Shahar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named שחר in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Shahar most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shahar is densest in Poland — about 1 in 135 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Shahar?
In the United States, the national register counted 369 people named Shahar in 2020, about 1 in 901 thousand residents.
How common is Shahar compared with other names?
In Israel, Shahar is the 159th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shahar” — the 159th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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