Bahar

Bahar is simply the Persian word for spring, the thaw, the green return, the season that crowns Nowruz. It has been worn by Iranian poets and singers, including the classical vocalist Sima Bina and the twentieth-century poet Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, and today it is one of the more popular girls' names in Iran. Pronounced bah-HAAR, the two syllables open like a door onto a garden. The name carries no hidden layers, no borrowed grandeur, only weather and flowers. That plainness is its strength. Bahar feels fresh without being delicate, and sounds quietly hopeful every time it is said aloud.