Entry № 6930 · Arabic origin

Mizar Mizar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MY-zar /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"A star of the Great Bear"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a star of the great bear".

Mizar is a famous double star in the handle of the Big Dipper, long paired in the sky with little Alcor.

Its Arabic name has kept its place in the night sky for a thousand years.

A star of the Great Bear — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

Mizar
Transliteration
Mizar
Pronunciation
/ ˈmaɪ.zar /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mizar stands.

Mizar 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.

Mizars before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Mizar.

The number behind Mizar.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mizar reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.