Entry № 149 · Arabic origin

Adhara Adhara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-DAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"The maidens; a bright star"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the maidens; a bright star".

Adhara is a brilliant star in Canis Major, its name from the Arabic for the maidens or virgins.

Second-brightest in its constellation, it shines as a graceful, celestial name.

The maidens; a bright star — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

Adhara
Transliteration
Adhara
Pronunciation
/ aˈða.ɾa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Adhara stands.

Adhara 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.

Adharas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Adhara.

The number behind Adhara.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adhara reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.