Yashar

Meaning of Yashar

Yashar drifts across the tongue like a low flute note in a moon-lit Kyoto garden—yah… shar—two syllables that bend and straighten with the calm certainty of bamboo after rain. Drawn from Persian and Turkic currents, and resonant with the Hebrew sense of “upright” or “straight,” the name speaks of a life that stands tall yet flows onward, much like a clear mountain stream gliding past moss-clad stones. In the West he appears only in faint ripples—five to nine newborns most years in America, a white crane glimpsed at the edge of the census pond—yet his rarity only deepens his quiet allure. Parents who choose Yashar often seek a talisman of integrity and longevity, a single brushstroke that says, without flourish, “live true.”

Pronunciation

Persian

• Pronunced as yah-SHAR (/jə ʃɐr/)

• Yasir
• Yashir