Johari as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Johari

What is the meaning of the name Johari ?

The baby name Johari is a Unisex name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /dʒoʊˈhɑːri/ (jo-HAH-ree).

Johari is Arabic, Swahili in Origin.

Johari is a unisex given name in Swahili meaning “jewel” or “gem,” borrowed from Arabic jawhar (جَوْهَر), “essence; jewel.” Through trade and Islamic scholarship along the East African coast, the Arabic root entered Swahili, where Johari came to denote something precious and luminous. The same root appears in Persian and Urdu as gohar/gauhar with the identical sense of a gemstone.

Usage spans East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar) as a first name for all genders, and the wider Islamic world as a byname or surname for jewelers (al-Jawharī, “the jeweler”). In Malay and Indonesian contexts Johari is a familiar male given name, while in North India “Johari” also occurs as a surname tied to traditional jeweler communities. Variants and cognates include Johar, Jawhar, Jauhar, Jawhari/Johary, and Gohar/Gauhar (Persian/Urdu), with Gowhar in Kurdish - each retaining the core meaning of “gem.”