Hagar

Hagar — הגר — is one of the most consequential names in the Abrahamic traditions, belonging to the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham his first son, Ishmael, and was later sent into the wilderness with him. Her encounter with the angel at the well of Beer-lahai-roi — where she becomes the first person in the Hebrew Bible to give God a name — makes her a pivotal figure for Jewish, Christian, and Islamic readers alike, and the revered foremother of the Arab peoples in Islamic tradition. Two syllables, both sturdy and grounded. Rare in modern use, it carries desert wind and ancestral dignity.