Given name & surname
Jawhar
“as precious as a jewe!”
Jawhar is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “as precious as a jewe!.”
Original Arabicجوهر
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “as precious as a jewe!.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jawhar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1975. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jawhar’s family of names
Jawhar has a related form in Jawahar. In Arabic usage, Jawhar is a transliteration of جوهر.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Jawhar
- Jawhar10th-century Fatimid military officer911–992
- Jawhar MnariTunisian association football playerborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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