Entry № 7559 · Hebrew origin

Nofar Nofar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NOH-far /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Water lily"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Hebrew)

A name that means "water lily".

Nofar (נוֹפַר) is the Hebrew word for "water lily" — particularly the yellow water lily that grows in Israeli rivers and ponds.

Nofar Salman is the Israeli singer.

Water lily. The Hebrew Israeli river flower.

The name in its native script.

נוֹפַר
Transliteration
Nōp̄ar
Pronunciation
/ ˈnoʊ.fɑːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nofar stands.

Nofar does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nofars before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nofar
Common in Israeli fiction.

Names connected to Nofar.

The number behind Nofar.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nofar reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.