Female Hebrew Baby Names
AALIYAH (עלִיָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Aliya, meaning “to ascend, to go up.”
ABICHAIL (אֲבִיחַיִל):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Abiyhayil, meaning “father of might.”
ABIGAYIL (אֲבִיגַיִל):
Hebrew name meaning “father rejoices.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of King David. Also spelled Avigayil.
ABIHAYIL (אֲבִיחַיִל):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Abiyhayil, meaning “father of might.”
ABIY (אֲבִי):
Hebrew name meaning “my father.” In the bible, this is the name of the mother of King Hezekiah. Also spelled Avi.
ABIYAH (אֲבִיָּה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “Yahweh is my father.” In the bible, this is the name of a son of Samuel, the mother of Hezekiah, a member of the tribe of Benjamin, a king of Judah, and several other characters. Also spelled Aviyah.
ABIYHAYIL (אֲבִיחַיִל):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “father of might.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of Rehoboam, the father of Esther, a Levite who was the head of the house of Merari, and several other characters. Abihail is the Anglicized form. Also spelled Avichayil.
ABIYSHAG (אֲבִישַׁג):
Hebrew name meaning “my father is a wanderer” or “father of error.” In the bible, this is the name of a young girl who cared for David in his old age. Also spelled Avishag.
ABIYTAL (אֲבִיטַל):
Hebrew name meaning “my father is dew.” In the bible, this is the name of one of David’s wives.
ABRA:
Short form of Hebrew Abrahamit, meaning “father of a multitude.” This name was popular in 17th century England. Also spelled Avra.
ABRAHAMIT (אַבְרָהָמִית):
Feminine form of Hebrew Abraham, meaning “father of a multitude.” Also spelled Avrahamit.
ACĔNATH (אָסְנַת):
Hebrew name of Egyptian origin, meaning “belonging to the goddess Neith.” In the bible, this is the name of Joseph’s Egyptian wife.
ADA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Adah, meaning “ornament.” Compare with other forms of Ada.
ADAH (עָדָה):
Hebrew name meaning “ornament.” In the bible, this is the name of Lamech’s wife and also Esau’s wife.
ADARA:
Hebrew name meaning “noble.” Compare with another form of Adara.
ADDIE:
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Adi, meaning “my ornament” or “my witness.” Compare with another form of Addie.
ADI (עֲדִי):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “my ornament” or “my witness.”
ADIRA (אַדִּירָה):
Hebrew name meaning “noble; powerful.”
ADIVA (אֲדִיבָה):
Hebrew name meaning “gentle, gracious, pleasant.”
ADIYNA (עֲדִינָא):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “slender.” In the bible, this is a masculine name only, the name of one of King David’s captains.
AFFRA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Afra, meaning “ashes, dust” and “clay, loam.”
AFRA (רפַעָ):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Aphra, meaning “ashes, dust” and “clay, loam.” Compare with another form of Afra.
AHAVA (אַהֲבָה):
Hebrew name meaning “water” or “I shall subsist.” In the bible, this is the name of an area in Babylonia where Ezra gathered the exiles.
AHUVA (אֲהוּבָה):
Hebrew name meaning “beloved.”
ALEEZA (עַלִּיזָה):
Hebrew name meaning “joy.”
ALISA (עֲלִיסָה):
Hebrew name meaning “joy.” Also spelled Aleeza. Compare with other forms of Alisa.
ALITZA (עַלִיצָה):
Hebrew name meaning “joy.”
ALIYA (עלִיָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “to ascend, to go up.” Compare with another form of Aliya.
ALIYAH (עלִיָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Aliya, meaning “to ascend, to go up.” Compare with another form of Aliyah.
ALIZA (עַלִּיזָה):
Variant spelling of both Hebrew Aleeza and Alitza, meaning “joy.”
ALIZAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Aliza, meaning “joy.”
ALMA (עַלְמָה):
Hebrew name meaning “maiden.” Compare with another form of Alma.
ALMAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Alma, meaning “maiden.” Compare with another form of Almah.
ALONA (אַלּוּנָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Alon, meaning “oak tree.”
ALYA (אַלְיָה):
Aramaic and Hebrew name meaning “dirge, elegy” or “sheep’s tail.” In astronomy, this is the traditional name for Theta Serpentis, a star in the constellation Serpens.
AMALYA (עֲמַלְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “industrious” or “work of the Lord.”
AMINA (אַמִינָה):
Hebrew name meaning “faithful, trusted.” Compare with another form of Amina.
AMINE:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Amina, meaning “faithful, trusted.”
AMINTA (אַמִינְתָה):
Hebrew name meaning “truth, friendship.” Compare with another form of Aminta.
AMINTAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Aminta, meaning “defender.”
AMIRA (אֲמִירָה):
Hebrew name meaning “speech, utterance.” Compare with another form of Amira.
AMIT (עָמִית):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “friend.”
AMITA (אַמִּתָה):
Hebrew name meaning “honest, upright.” Compare with another form of Amita.
ANAT (עַנָת):
Unisex form of Hebrew Anath, meaning “answer (to prayer).” Compare with another form of Anat.
APHRA (רפַעָ):
Hebrew unisex name derived from the word aphra, meaning “ashes, dust” and “clay, loam.” In the bible, this is part of the name of a Philistine city, Bethel-aphrah.
APHRODIT (אַפְרוֹדִית):
Hebrew form of Greek Aphrodite, meaning “risen from the foam.”
ARI’EL (אֲרִיאֵל):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “lion of god.” In the bible, this is a name applied to the city of Jerusalem, and the name of a chief of the returning exiles. In the Apocrypha, this is the name of an archangel who rules the waters. It is also the name of a moon of Uranus, and the name of a spirit in Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest.”
ASHERAH (אֲשֵׁרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “groves (for idol worship)” or “blessed, fortunate.” In the bible, this is the Hebrew name for the Babylonian-Canaanite goddess Astarte. It is also the name for her images and sacred trees or poles used for worshiping her.
ASHERDU:
Hittite form of Hebrew Asherah, perhaps having the same meaning “groves (for idol worship)” or “blessed, fortunate.”
ASHTAROWTH (עַשְׁתְּרוֹת):
Hebrew name, meaning “star.” In the bible, this is the name applied to false goddesses in the Canaanite religion, usually related to a fertility cult. It is also the name of a city in Bashan east of the Jordan given to Manasseh.
ASHTORETH (עַשְׁתּׄרֶת):
Hebrew name meaning “star.” In the bible, this is the name of the principal female deity of the Semitic nations, worshiped in war and fertility. Equated with Assyrian Ishtar and Greek Astarte.
ATARA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Atarah, meaning” crown” or “wreath.”
ATARAH (עֲטָרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “crown” or “wreath.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of Jerahmeel.
AVAGAIL:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Avigayil, meaning “father rejoices.”
AVI (אֲבִי):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Abiy, meaning “my father.” Compare with masculine Avi.
AVICHAYIL (אֲבִיחַיִל):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Abihayil, meaning “father of might.”
AVIGAIL:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Avigayil, meaning “father rejoices.”
AVIGAL (אֲבִיגַל):
Unisex form of Hebrew Avigayil, meaning “father rejoices.”
AVIGAYIL (אֲבִיגַיִל):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Abigayil, meaning “father rejoices.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of King David.
AVISHAG (אֲבִישַׁג):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Abiyshag, meaning “my father is a wanderer” or “father of error.” In the bible, this is the name of a young girl who cared for David in his old age.
AVIVA (אֲבִיבָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Aviv, meaning “springtime.”
AVIYAH (אֲבִיָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Abiyah, meaning “Yahweh is my father.”
AVRA:
Short form of Hebrew Avrahamit, meaning “father of a multitude.” Also spelled Abra.
AVRAHAMIT (אַבְרָהָמִית):
Feminine form of Hebrew Avraham, meaning “father of a multitude.” Also spelled Abrahamit.
AYA (אַיָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Ayah, meaning “falcon” or “vulture.” Compare with another form of Aya.
AYAH (אַיָּה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “falcon” or “vulture.” In the bible, this is the name of the father of Rizpah, and a Horite, the son of Zibeon.
AYALA (אַיָּלָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Ayal, meaning “deer; gazelle.”
AYALAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Ayala, meaning “deer; gazelle.”
AYELET (אַיֶּלֶת):
Hebrew name derived from a name for the morning star, meaning “deer; gazelle.”
AYLA (אֵלָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Eila, meaning “oak tree, terebinth tree.” Compare with another form of Ayla.
AZENETH (אָסְנַת):
Variant form of Hebrew Acĕnath, meaning “belonging to the goddess Neith.”
AZUVAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Azuwbah, meaning “forsaken.”
AZUWBAH (עֲזוּבָה):
Hebrew name meaning “heaps of ruins,” i.e. “forsaken.” In the bible, this is the name of several characters, including Caleb’s wife and the mother of Jehoshaphat. Also spelled Azuvah.
BARA (בָּרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “to choose.”
BARRA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bara, meaning “to choose.” Compare with masculine Barra.
BASIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Basya, meaning “daughter of God.”
BASMA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bosma, meaning perfumed.”
BASMAT:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bosmat, meaning “spice” or “sweet smelling.”
BASYA:
Ashkenazic form of Hebrew Batya, meaning “daughter of God.”
BAT-EL (בַּת-אֵל):
Hebrew name meaning “daughter of God.”
BATH-SHEBA (בַּת-שֶׁבַע):
Hebrew name meaning “daughter of the oath.” In the bible, this is the name of a wife of Uriah then later King David, and mother of Solomon. Also spelled Bat-Sheva, Bathsheba, and Bathsheva.
BATHSHEBA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bath-Sheba, meaning “daughter of the oath.” In the bible, this is the name of a wife of King David and mother of Solomon.
BATHSHEVA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bath-Sheba, meaning “daughter of the oath.”
BATH-SHUA (בַּתשׁוּעַ):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bath-Shuwa, meaning “daughter of wealth.”
BATH-SHUWA (בַּתשׁוּעַ):
Hebrew name meaning “daughter of wealth.” In the bible, this is another name Bath-Sheba is known by.
BATSHEBA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bathsheba, meaning “daughter of the oath.”
BAT-SHEVA (בַּת-שֶׁבַע):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bath-Sheba, meaning “daughter of the oath.”
BATYA (בַּתְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “daughter of God.”
BATYAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Batya, meaning “daughter of God.”
BERURA (בְּרוּרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “clean, pure.”
BETH-EL (בֵּית-אֵל):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Beyth-El, meaning “house of God.” In the bible, this is the name of an ancient city of the Canaanites, later of the Benjamites.
BEULA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Beulah, meaning “she who is married.”
BEULAH (בְּעוּלָה):
A derivative of Hebrew Ba’al (“to marry; to be lord, master, possessor”), meaning “she who is married.” In the bible, this is an allegorical name for the land of Israel.
BEYTH-EL (בֵּית-אֵל):
Hebrew name meaning “house of God.” In the bible, this is the name of an ancient city of the Canaanites, later of the Benjamites.
BILHAH (בִּלְהָה):
Hebrew name meaning “weak, troubled, old.” In the bible, this is the name of Rachel’s handmaid whom she gave to Jacob as a concubine.
BINA (בִּינָה):
Hebrew name meaning “intelligence, wisdom.”
BINAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bina, meaning “intelligence, wisdom.”
BITHYAH (בִּתְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “daughter of God.” In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Pharoah.
BITYA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bityah, meaning “daughter of God.”
BITYAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bithyah, meaning “daughter of God.”
BOSMA (בָּשְׂמָה):
Hebrew name meaning “perfumed.”
BOSMAT:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bosmath, meaning “spice” or “sweet smelling.”
BOSMATH (בָּשְׂמַת):
Hebrew name meaning “spice” or “sweet smelling.” In the bible, this is the name of a wife of Esau, and a daughter of Solomon.
CARNI (קַרְנִי):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Karni, meaning “my horn,” a symbol of strength.
CARNIA (קַרְנִיָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Karnia, meaning “horn of God.”
CARNIELA (קַרְנִיאֵלָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Karniela, meaning “horn of the Lord.”
CARNIELLA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Carniela, meaning “horn of the Lord.”
CHANA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Channa, meaning “favor; grace.”
CHANAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Channah, meaning “favor; grace.”
CHANI:
Pet form of Hebrew Channah, meaning “favor; grace.”
CHANIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chaniya, meaning “encampment, resting place.”
CHANIYA (חַנִיָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “encampment, resting place.”
CHANNA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chana, meaning “favor; grace.” In the bible, this is the name of the mother of Samuel and wife to Elkanah.
CHANNAH (חַנָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “favor; grace.” In the bible, this is the name of the mother of Samuel and wife to Elkanah.
CHASIDA (חֲסִידָה):
Hebrew name meaning “stork” and “righteous.”
CHASIDAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chasida, meaning “stork” and “righteous.”
CHAVA (חַוָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chavva, meaning “life.”
CHAVIVA (חֲבִיבָה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “beloved.”
CHAVVA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chavvah, meaning “life.”
CHAVVAH (חַוָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “life.” In the bible, this is the name of the first woman, the wife of Adam.
CHAYA (חַיִּה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Chayim, meaning “alive.”
CHEFTZI-BA (חֶפְצִי-בָּהּ):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chephtsiy-bahh, meaning “she is my desire.”
CHEFTZIBAH:
Variant form of Hebrew Cheftzi-Ba, meaning “she is my desire.”
CHEL’A:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chel’ah, meaning “depraved” or “rust.”
CHEL’AH (חֶלְאָה):
Hebrew name meaning “depraved” or “rust.” In the bible, this is the name of a wife of Asher.
CHENYA (הֵנְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “grace of the Lord.”
CHEPHTSIY-BAHH (חֶפְצִי-בָּהּ):
Hebrew name meaning “she is my desire.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of king Hezekiah. Also spelled Cheftzi-ba.
CHERUT (חֵרוּת):
Hebrew name meaning “freedom.”
CHERUTA (חֵרוּתָה):
Variant form of Hebrew Cherut, meaning “freedom.”
CHIBA (חִבָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “love.”
CHITA (חִטָה):
Hebrew name meaning “food, grain.” Compare with other forms of Chita.
CHULDA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chuldah, meaning “mole” or “weasel.”
CHULDAH (חוּלְדָה):
Hebrew name meaning “mole” or “weasel.” In the bible, this is the name of a prophetess.
DAGANIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Deganya, meaning “grain.”
DAGANYA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Deganya, meaning “grain.”
DANA (דָּנָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Dan, meaning “judge.” Compare with other forms of Dana.
DANIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Danya, meaning “judge.”
DANIAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Danya, meaning “judge.”
DANIELA (דָּנִיּאֵלָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Daniyel, meaning “God is my judge.”
DANIELLA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Daniela, meaning “God is my judge.”
DANITA (דָּנִיתָה):
Pet form of Hebrew Dana, “judge.”
DANIYA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Danya, meaning “judge.”
DANYA (דַּנְיָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Dan, meaning “judge.”
DAVIDA (דָוִידָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew David, meaning “beloved.”
DAYNA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Dana, possibly meaning “judge.”
DEBOWRAH (דְּבוֹרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “bee.” In the bible, this is the name of the nurse of Rebecca, and the prophetess-judge and wife of Lapidoth. Also spelled Devorah.
DEGANA (דְּגָנָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Deganya, meaning “grain.”
DEGANIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Deganya, meaning “grain.”
DEGANIAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Deganya, meaning “grain.”
DEGANIT (דְּגָנִית):
Variant form of Hebrew Deganya, meaning “grain.”
DEGANIYA (דְּגָנִיָּה):
Variant form of Hebrew Deganya, meaning “grain.”
DEGANYA (דְגַנְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “grain.”
DELIYLAH (דְּלִילָה):
Hebrew name derived from the root dal, meaning “delicate, weak.” In the bible, this is the name of the mistress of Samson.
DEVORA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Devorah, meaning “bee.”
DEVORAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Debowrah, meaning “bee.”
DIMONA (דִּימוֹנָה):
Hebrew name meaning “south.”
DITA (דִּיתָה):
Pet form of Hebrew Yehuwdiyth, meaning “Jewess” or “praised.” Compare with another form of Dita.
DIYNAH (דִּינָה):
Hebrew name meaning “judgment.” In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Jacob.
DODI (דּוֹדִי):
Hebrew name meaning “my beloved, my friend.” Compare with another form of Dodi.
DODIE:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Dodi, meaning “my beloved, my friend.” Compare with another form of Dodie.
DOR (דּוֹר):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Dowr, meaning “generation” or “period of time.” In the bible, this is the name of a coastal city in Manasseh, south of Carmel.
DORIT (דּוֹרִית):
Hebrew name meaning “generation” or “period of time.”
DOWR (דּוֹר):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “generation” or “period of time.” In the bible, this is the name of a coastal city in Manasseh, south of Carmel.
DVORAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Devorah, meaning “bee.”
ECTER (אֶסְתֵּר):
Hebrew form of Persian Esther, meaning “star.”
EDEN (עֵדֶן):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “delight” or “place of pleasure.” In the bible, this is the name of the garden in which Adam and Eve lived.
EDER (עֵדֶר):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “herd, flock.” In the bible, this is the name of a Levite who lived in the time of David, and the name of a town in the south of Judah. Compare with another form of Eder.
EDNA (עֶדְנָה):
Hebrew name meaning “delight, pleasure, rejuvenation.” In the apocryphal Book of Tobit, this is the name of the mother of Sarah. Compare with another form of Edna.
EDNAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Edna, meaning “delight, pleasure, rejuvenation.”
EFA (עֵיפָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Efah, meaning “darkness” or “gloomy.” Compare with another form of Efa.
EFAH (עֵיפָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Eyphah, meaning “darkness” or “gloomy.”
EIFA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Efah, meaning “darkness” or “gloomy.”
EILA (אֵלָה):
Hebrew name meaning “oak tree, terebinth tree.”
ELA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Eila, meaning “oak tree, terebinth tree.” Compare with another form of Ela.
ELIANA (אֶלִיעַנָה):
Hebrew name meaning “my God has answered.” Compare with another form of Eliana.
ELIANE:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Eliana, meaning “my God has answered.” Compare with another form of Eliane.
ELIANNA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Eliana, meaning “my God has answered.” Compare with another form of Elianna.
ELIORA (אֶלִיאוֹרָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Elior, meaning “my God is light.”
ELISHEBA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Elisheva, meaning “God is my oath.”
ELISHEVA (אֱלִישֶׁבַע):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Eliysheba, meaning “God is my oath.”
ELIYSHEBA (אֱלִישֶׁבַע):
Hebrew name meaning “God is my oath.” In the Old Testament bible, this is the name of the wife of Aaron.
ELKE:
Feminine form of Hebrew Elkanah, meaning either “God bought” or “God is jealous.” Compare with another form of Elke.
EMET (אֶמֶת):
Hebrew name meaning “truth.” The masculine form is spelled Emmet.
ETNA (אֶתְנָה):
Hebrew name meaning “hire” or “for hire.” Compare with another form of Etna.
EYPHAH (עֵיפָה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “darkness” or “gloomy.” In the bible, this is the name of several characters, including a son of Midian and one of Caleb’s concubines. Also spelled Efah. The Anglicized form is Ephah.
GAL (גַּל):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “mound, wave.”
GALA (גַּלָה):
Feminine variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Gal, meaning “mound, wave.” Compare with another form of Gala.
GALIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Galya, meaning “hill of God.”
GALILA (גָּלִילָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Galil, meaning “cylinder” or “boundary.” Compare with another form of Galila.
GALINA (גָּלִינָה):
Hebrew form of Greek Helénē, possibly meaning “torch.” Compare with another form of Galina.
GALIT (גָּלִית):
Variant form of Hebrew Gal, meaning “mound, wave.”
GALYA (גָּלְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “hill of God.” Compare with another form of Galya.
GAVRIELA (גַבְרִילָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Gavriel, meaning “man of God” or “warrior of God.”
GHILA (גִּילָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Gila, meaning “joy.”
GILA (גִּילָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Gil, meaning “joy.”
GILAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Gila, meaning “joy.”
GINA (גִּנָּה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “garden.” Compare with other forms of Gina.
GOMER (גּׄמֶר):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “to finish, to complete.” In the bible, this is the name of both the son of Japhet and the wife of the Prophet Hosea.
HADA (הָדָה):
Short form of Hebrew Hadaccah, meaning “myrtle tree.”
HADACCAH (הֲדַסָה):
Hebrew name meaning “myrtle tree.” In the bible, this is Esther’s Hebrew name.
HADAS (הָדָס):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “myrtle tree.”
HAGAR (הָגָר):
Hebrew name meaning “flight.” In the bible, this is the name of the mother of Ishmael.
HANA (חַנָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chana, meaning “favor; grace.” Compare with other forms of Hana.
HANIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chaniya, meaning “encampment, resting place.”
HANIYA (חַנִיָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chaniya, meaning “encampment, resting place.”
HANIYYA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Haniya, meaning “encampment, resting place.”
HASIDA (חֲסִידָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chasida, meaning “stork” and “righteous.”
HAVA (חַוָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chavvah, meaning “life.”
HAVVA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chavvah, meaning “life.”
HED (הֵד):
Hebrew unisex name meaning either “shout of joy” or “echo.”
HENYA (הֵנְיָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chenya, meaning “grace of the Lord.”
HENYE:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Henya, meaning “grace of the Lord.”
HERUT:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Cherut, meaning “freedom.”
HERUTA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Cheruta, meaning “freedom.”
HIBA (חִבָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Chiba, meaning “love.” Compare with another form of Hiba.
HOSHA’NA (הוֹשׁע-נא):
Hebrew unisex name derived from hosha’na, meaning “deliver us.”
ILANA (אִילָנָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Ilan, meaning “tree.”
ILANIT (אִילָנִית):
Variant form of Hebrew Ilana, meaning “tree.”
ILYA (אִלְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “dirge, elegy.”
IMA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Imma, meaning “mother.” Compare with another form of Ima.
IMMA (אִמָא):
Hebrew name meaning “mother.” Compare with another form of Imma.
INBAL (עִנְבָּל):
Hebrew name meaning “tongue of a bell.”
IRIT (עִירִית):
Hebrew name meaning “animal fodder.”
IYZEBEL (אִיזֶבֶל):
Hebrew name meaning “Ba’al exalts,” “unchaste,” or “without cohabitation.” In the bible, this is the name of the evil wife of King Ahab. She was eaten by dogs as prophesied by Elijah.
IZEVEL:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Iyzebel, meaning “Ba’al exalts,” “unchaste,” or “without cohabitation.” In the bible, this is the name of the evil wife of King Ahab. She was eaten by dogs as prophesied by Elijah.
JAFFA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yaffa, meaning “beautiful.”
JAFFE:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Jaffa, meaning “beautiful.”
JOCHEVED:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yowkebed, meaning “God is glory.”
KALANIT (כַּלָּנִית):
Hebrew name for the Anemone coronaria native to the Mediterranean region, derived from the word kalanit, meaning “poppy anemone.”
KARMEL (כַּרְמֶל):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “garden-land.” In the bible, this is the name of a mountain in the Holy Land.
KARNI (קַרְנִי):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “my horn,” a symbol of strength. Also spelled Carni.
KARNIA (קַרְנִיָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “horn of God.” Also spelled Carnia.
KARNIELA (קַרְנִיאֵלָה):
Hebrew name meaning “horn of the Lord.” Also spelled Carniela.
KELILA (כְּלִילָה):
Hebrew name meaning “crown” or “laurel.”
KESHET (קֶשֶׁת):
Hebrew name meaning “rainbow.”
KYLA:
Variant form of Hebrew Kelila, meaning “crown” or “laurel.” Used as a Yiddish name. Compare with another form of Kyla.
KYLE:
Variant form of Hebrew Kelila, meaning “crown” or “laurel.” Used as a Yiddish name. Compare with another form of Kyle.
LATIFA (לָטִיפָה):
Hebrew name meaning “caress” or “gentle slap.” Compare with another form of Latifa.
LAVI (לָבִיא):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “lion.”
LEA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Leah, meaning “weary.” Compare with another form of Lea.
LEAH (לֵאָה):
Hebrew name meaning “weary.” In the bible, this is the name of Jacob’s first wife. Compare with other forms of Leah.
LEEBA (לִיבָּא):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Liba, meaning “heart.” Compare with another form of Leeba.
LEILA (לַיְלָה):
Hebrew name meaning “night” or “dark Oriental beauty.” Compare with other forms of Leila.
LEILAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Leila, meaning “night” or “dark Oriental beauty.” Compare with another form of Leilah.
LI (לִי):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “to me.” Compare with another form of Li.
LIAT (לִיאַתּ):
Hebrew name meaning “you are mine.”
LIBA (לִיבָּא):
Variant form of Hebrew Libe, meaning “heart.” Compare with another form of Liba.
LIBE (לִיבֶּע):
Hebrew name derived from the word lev, meaning “heart.” Compare with another form of Libe.
LIBNAH (לִבְנָה):
Hebrew name meaning “whiteness, transparency.” In the bible, this is the name of a city captured by Joshua.
LILA (לִילָה):
Hebrew name meaning “she is mine.” Compare with other forms of Lila.
LILIT (לִילִית):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Lilith, meaning “of the night.”
LILITH (לִילִית):
Hebrew form of Sumerian Lilitu, meaning “of the night.” In mythology, this is the name of a Mesopotamian storm demon associated with the wind and thought to bear disease and death. In ancient Semitic folklore, it is the name of a night demon. The oldest story considers Lilith to be Adam’s first wife. In the bible, this is simply a word for a “screech owl.”
LIOR (לִיאוֹר):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “my light.”
LIORA (לִיאוֹרָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew unisex Lior, meaning “my light.”
LIORIT (לִיאוֹרִית):
Feminine form of Hebrew unisex Lior, meaning “my light.”
LIRON (לִירוֹן):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “my song.”
LIVNAH (לִבְנָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Libnah, meaning “whiteness, transparency.” In the bible, this is the name of a city captured by Joshua.
LIVNATH (לִבְנַת):
Variant form of Hebrew Livnah (“whiteness, transparency”), meaning “Belus, glass,” from the sand of which glass was first made by the Phoenicians.” In the bible, this is part of the name of a river, Shihor-libnath, which flows into the sea.
LUNA (לוּנה):
Hebrew name meaning “dweller.” Compare with another form of Luna.
MAAKAH (מַעֲכָה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “to press, to squeeze,” i.e. “oppression.” In the bible this is the name of many characters, including one of King David’s wives, and a son of Nahor.
MACHALATH (מַחֲלַת):
Hebrew name meaning “stringed instrument.” In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Ishmael.
MACHLAH (מַחְלָה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “disease.” In the bible, this is the name of a Gileadite (sex uncertain), and the name of the eldest of Zelophehad’s five daughters.
MALAK (מַלְאָךְ):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “angel, messenger.” In the bible, this is a word used to denote a messenger from God or from a private individual. Compare with another form of Malak.
MALKA (מַלְכָּה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “queen” for girls and “king” for boys.
MANA (מָנָה):
Hebrew name meaning “part, portion.” Compare with another form of Mana.
MAQQEDAH (מַקֵּדָה):
Hebrew name meaning “place of shepherds.” In the bible, this is the name of a place in Judah, near Beth Horon, mentioned in Joshua 15:41.
MARA (מָרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “bitter.” In the bible, this is the name that Naomi gave herself after the death of her husband and sons.
MARGANIT (מַרְגָּנִית):
Hebrew name derived from the name of a plant of Israel having blue, gold and red flowers.
MARGANITA (מַרְגָּנִיתָה):
Variant form of Hebrew Marganit, the name of a plant of Israel having blue, gold and red flowers.
MARNINA (מַרְנִינָה):
Hebrew name meaning “rejoice.”
MARVA (מַרְוָה):
Hebrew name derived from the name of a “mint” plant.
MAYTAL:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Meital, meaning “dew drops.”
MEIRA (מֵאִירָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Meir, meaning “giving light.”
MEIRIONA (מֵרוֹנָה):
Hebrew name meaning “soldiers, troops.” Compare with another form of Meiriona.
MEIRI (מְאִירִי):
Variant form of Hebrew Meira, meaning “giving light.”
MEIRIT (מְאִירִית):
Variant form of Hebrew Meiri, meaning “giving light.”
MEITAL (מֵיטַל):
Hebrew name meaning “dew drops.”
MENUCHA (מְנוּחָה):
Hebrew name meaning “tranquility.”
MENUHA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Menucha, meaning “tranquility.”
MERAB (מֵרַב):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Merav, meaning “increase, multiplication.” In the bible, this is the name of the eldest daughter of King Saul.
MERAV (מֵרַב):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Merab, meaning “increase, multiplication.”
MERI (מֶרִי):
Hebrew name meaning “bitter” and “rebellious.”
MIRA:
Pet form of Hebrew Miryam, meaning “obstinacy, rebelliousness” or “their rebellion.” Compare with other forms of Mira.
MIRYAM (מִרְיָם):
Hebrew name meaning “obstinacy, rebelliousness” or “their rebellion.” In the bible, this is the name of a woman of Judah, and the sister of Aaron and Moses.
MIYKAL (מִיכַל):
Hebrew name meaning “who is like God.” In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of king Saul.
MORAG (מוֹרַג):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “threshing board.” Compare with another form of Morag.
MORIYA (מוֹרִיָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Mowriyah, meaning “chosen by God.”
MOWRIYAH (מוֹרִיָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “chosen by God.” In the bible, this is the name of the mountain where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac to God.
NAAMAH (נַעֲמָה):
Hebrew name meaning “beautiful, pleasant.” In the bible, this is the name of the Ammonite wife of Solomon.
NAAMI:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Naamiy, meaning “loveliness.”
NAAMIY (נָעֳמִי):
Hebrew name meaning “loveliness.”
NACHALA (נַחֲלָה):
Hebrew name meaning “inheritance” or “territory.”
NAHALA:
Variant form of Hebrew Nachala, meaning “inheritance” or “territory.”
NAVA (נָאוָה):
Hebrew name meaning “beautiful.”
NECHUSHTA (נְחֻשְׁתָּא):
Hebrew name meaning “brass.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of King Jehoiakim, the mother of Jehoichin.
NENA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Nina, meaning “granddaughter” or “great-granddaughter.” Compare with other forms of Nena.
NESSA:
Feminine form of Hebrew Nes, meaning “miracle.” Compare with other forms of Nessa.
NETA (נֶטַע):
Hebrew unisex name meaning meaning “plant, shrub.”
NETTA:
Feminine variant spelling of Hebrew Neta, meaning “plant, shrub.” Compare with another form of Netta.
NEVA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Niva, meaning “speech.” Compare with other forms of Neva.
NINA (נִינָה):
Hebrew name meaning “granddaughter” or “great-granddaughter.” Compare with other forms of Nina.
NIR (נִיר):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “to cultivate a field.”
NISA: (נִסָה):
Hebrew name meaning “to test.” Also spelled Nissa.
NISSA (נִסָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Nisa, meaning “to test.”
NITA (נִיטַע):
Hebrew name meaning “to plant.” Compare with other forms of Nita.
NITZA (נִצָה):
Hebrew name meaning “flower bud.”
NIVA (נִיבָה):
Hebrew name meaning “speech.”
NO’AH (נׄעָה):
Hebrew name meaning “motion.” In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Zelophehad.
NOAM (נׄעַם):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “pleasantness.”
NOGA (נׄגַה):
Unisex form of Hebrew Nogahh, meaning “shining splendor,” as of the fire or the sun.
NO’OMIY (נָעֳמִי):
Hebrew name meaning “my delight, my pleasantness.” In the bible, this is the name of the mother-in-law of Ruth.
NURIT (נוּרִית):
Hebrew flower name meaning “buttercup.”
NURYA (נוּרְיָא):
Hebrew form of Aramaic Nura, meaning “illumination, wisdom (of God).”
NYSSA (נִסָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Nissa, meaning “sign.”
ODELEYA (אוֹדֶלְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “I will praise God.”
ODELIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Odeleya, meaning “I will praise God.” Compare with another form of Odelia.
OFRA (עָפְרָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Ophrah, meaning “fawn.”
OPHRAH (עָפְרָה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “fawn.” In the bible, this is the name of two places, and the name of a son of Meonothai.
OPRAH:
Feminine variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Ophrah, meaning “fawn.”
ORA (אוֹרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “light.” Compare with another form of Ora.
ORAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Ora, meaning “light.”
ORALEE (אוֹרָה-לִי):
Hebrew name meaning “my light.” Compare with another form of Oralee.
ORIT (אוֹרִית):
Variant form of Hebrew Ora, meaning “light.”
OR-LEE (אוֹר-לִי):
Hebrew name meaning “light is mine.”
ORLI (אוֹרְלִי):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Or-lee, meaning “light is mine.”
ORLY:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Orli, meaning “light is mine.”
ORNA (אָרְנָה):
Hebrew name meaning “let there be light” or “pine tree.” Compare with another form of Orna.
ORNAT (אׄרְנַת):
Variant form of Hebrew Orna, meaning “let there be light” or “pine tree.” Compare with another form of Ornat.
ORPA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Orpah, meaning “forelock, mane” or “gazelle, hind.”
ORPAH (עָרְפָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “forelock, mane” or “gazelle, hind.” In the bible, this is the name of a Moabite woman.
OZ (עׄז):
Hebrew name meaning “might, strength.” Compare with masculine forms of Oz.
PENINAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Peninnah, meaning “coral” or “pearl.”
PENINNAH (פְּנִנָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “coral” or “pearl.” In the bible, this is the name of a wife of Elkanah.
PILI (פִּלְאִי):
Hebrew name meaning “miraculous.” Compare with other forms of Pili.
QEREN (קֶרֶן):
Hebrew name meaning “horn (of an animal).” Also a short form of Qeren Happuwk, meaning “horn of antimony,” a black paint used for eye-shadow.
QEREN HAPPUWK (קֶרֶן-הַפּוּךְ):
Hebrew name meaning “horn of antimony,” a black paint used for eye-shadow. In the bible, this is the name of one of Job’s daughters born after his trial.
QETSIYAH (קְצִיעָה):
Hebrew name meaning “cassia,” a bark similar to cinnamon. In the bible, this is the name of the second daughter of Job, born after his trial.
QETUWRAH (קְטוּרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “incense.” In the bible, this is the name of Abraham’s second wife.
RACHAB (רָחָב):
Hebrew name meaning “ample, broad, spacious, wide.” In the bible, this is the name of a harlot of Jericho who aided the spies in their escape and was saved from destruction.
RACHAV (רָחָב):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Rachab, meaning “ample, broad, spacious, wide.”
RACHEL (רָחֵל):
Hebrew name meaning “ewe.” In the bible, this is the name of Jacob’s favorite wife, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. Compare with other forms of Rachel.
RAFAELA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Refaela, meaning “healed of God” or “whom God has healed.” Compare with another form of Rafaela.
RAYA (רֵעַ):
Hebrew name meaning “friend.” Compare with another form of Raya.
REBA:
Pet form of Hebrew Ribqah, meaning “ensnarer.” Compare with masculine Reba. Compare with another form of Reba.
REENA:
Feminine variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Rina, meaning “joy.”
REFAELA (רְפָאֵלָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Rephaela, meaning “healed of God” or “whom God has healed.”
REPHAELA (רְפָאֵלָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Rephael, meaning “healed of God” or “whom God has healed.”
REUT (רְעוּת):
Hebrew name meaning “friend.”
REVA (רֶבַע):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Reba, meaning “ensnarer.” Compare with masculine Reva.
RIBQAH (רִבְקָה):
Hebrew name meaning “ensnarer.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of Isaac. Also spelled Rivka.
RINA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Rinnah, meaning “shouting for joy.” Compare with other forms of Rina.
RINNAH (רִנָּה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “shouting for joy.” In the bible, this is the name of descendant of Judah. Although this is a masculine name in the bible, it is otherwise used primarily as a feminine name.
RITSPAH (רִצְפָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “hot coal” or “pavement.” In the bible, this is the name of one of King Saul’s concubines.
RITZPA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Ritspah, meaning “hot coal” or “pavement.”
RITZPAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Ritspah, meaning “hot coal” or “pavement.”
RIVA (רִיבָה):
Pet form of Hebrew Rivka, meaning “ensnarer.” Compare with another form of Riva.
RIVKA (רִבְקָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Ribqah, meaning “ensnarer.”
ROMA (רוֹמָה):
Hebrew name meaning “exalted, lofty.”
RON (רוֹן):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “joy, song.” Compare with strictly masculine Ron.
RONA (רׄנָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “joy.” Compare with another form of Rona.
RONI (רוֹנִי):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “my joy” or “my song.” Compare with another form of Roni.
RONIT (רוֹנִית):
Feminine form of Hebrew unisex Ron, meaning “joy, song.” Compare with another form of Ronit.
ROTEM (רוֹתֶם):
Hebrew unisex name derived from the word rethem, found in the bible, meaning “juniper” or “broom plant,” a shrub growing in the deserts of Arabia with yellowish flowers, and a bitter root which the poor were accustomed to eat.
RUWTH (רוּת):
Hebrew name meaning “appearance” or “friendship.” In the bible, this is the name of a Moabite who marries Naomi’s son.
SABA (סָבָא):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “aged, old.” Compare with strictly masculine Saba.
SABRA (סַבְּרָה):
Hebrew name for a native-born Israeli, of Arabic origin, meaning “thorny cactus.”
SALMA (שַׂלְמָה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “garment.” In the bible, this is a masculine name only, the name of the father of Boaz. Compare with another form of Salma.
SAPHIRA (סַפִירָה):
Hebrew form of Greek Sapphira, meaning “sapphire.”
SARAH (שָׂרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “noble lady, princess.” In the bible, this is the name that God gave to Sarai, wife of Abraham.
SARAY (שָׂרַי):
Hebrew name meaning “my princes?” or “nobility.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of Abraham before God changed her name to Sarah.
SARIT (שָׂרַית):
Diminutive form of Hebrew Sarah, meaning “noble lady, princess.”
SAVA (סָבָא):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Saba, meaning “aged, old.” Compare with strictly masculine forms of Sava.
SEMADAR (סְמָדַר):
Hebrew name meaning “bud” or “blossom.”
SHACHAR (שַׁחַר):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “dawn” or “morning.”
SHAHAR (שַׁחַר):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Shachar, meaning “dawn” or “morning.”
SHAMIRA (שָׁמִירָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Shamiyr, meaning “a sharp point,” hence “thorn.”
SHANI (שָׁנִי):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “crimson red.” Compare with strictly masculine Shani.
SHAROWN (שָׁרוֹן):
Hebrew name meaning “plain, level ground.” In the bible, this is the name of a valley in Palestine. The name is sometimes given because of its association with the flowering shrub called Rose of Sharon.
SHEBA (שֶׁבַע):
Short form of Hebrew Bathsheba, meaning “daughter of the oath.” Compare with another form of Sheba.
SHECHINA (שׁכִינה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Shekinah, meaning “God” or “God’s holy spirit.”
SHE’ERA (שֶׁאֱרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “kinswoman.” In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Ephraim.
SHEKINAH (שׁכִינה):
Hebrew name derived from the word shekinah, meaning “God” or “God’s holy spirit.”
SHELOMIYTH (שְׁלמִׄית):
Hebrew name meaning “peaceful.” In the bible, this is the name of many characters, including a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.
SHEVA (שֶׁבַע):
Short form of Hebrew Bat-Sheva, meaning “daughter of the oath.” Compare with masculine Sheva.
SHIBAH (שֶׁבַע):
Hebrew name meaning “oath” or “seven.” In the bible, this is the name of a well named by Isaac.
SHIFRA (שִׁפְרָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Shiphrah, meaning “beauty, brightness.” Compare with another form of Shifra.
SHIPHRAH (שִׁפְרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “beauty, brightness.” In the bible, this is the name of two midwives.
SHIR (שִׁיר):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “song.”
SHIRA (שִׁירָה):
Hebrew name meaning “song.”
SHIRI (שִׁירָי):
Hebrew name meaning “my song.”
SHIR-LEE (שִׁיר-לִי):
Hebrew name meaning “song is mine.”
SHIRLEE:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Shir-Lee, meaning “song is mine.” Compare with another form of Shirlee.
SHLOMIT:
Contracted form of Hebrew Shelomiyth, meaning “peaceful.”
SHOSHAN (שׁוֹשַׁן):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “lily.” Compare with another form of Shoshan.
SHOSHANA (שׁוֹשַׁנָּה):
Feminine form of Hebrew unisex Shoshan, meaning “lily.”
SHOSHANAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Shoshana, meaning “lily.”
SHOSHANNAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Shoshana, meaning “lily.”
SHULA (שׁוּלָה):
Short form of Hebrew Shulamith, meaning “peaceful.” Compare with another form of Shula.
SHULAMITH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Shuwlammiyth, meaning “peaceful.”
SHURA (שׁוּרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “row, line.” Compare with another form of Shura.
SHUWLAMMIYTH (שׁוּלַמִּית):
Hebrew name meaning “peaceful.” In the bible, this is the name of the maiden celebrated in the Song of Solomon.
SIGAL (סִיגָל):
Hebrew name meaning “treasure.”
SIMCHA (שִׂמְחָה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “joy.”
SMADAR (סְמָדַר):
Variant form of Hebrew Semadar, meaning “bud” or “blossom.”
TAHLIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Talia, meaning “dew.”
TAL (טַל):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “dew.”
TALIA (טַלְיָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Talya, meaning “dew.” Compare with another form of Talia.
TALYA (טַלְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “dew.” Compare with other forms of Talya.
TAMAR (תָּמָר):
Hebrew name meaning “palm tree.” In the bible, this is the name of several characters, including a wife of Judah.
TEHILA (תְּהִלָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “prayer” or “song of praise.”
TIQVAH (תִּקְוָה):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “hope.” In the bible, this is strictly a masculine name, the name of the father of Shallum.
TIRTSAH (תִּרְצָה):
Hebrew name meaning “pleasantness.” In the bible, this is a place name and the name of a daughter of Zelophehad.
TORA (תּוֹרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “bible, holy scripture.” Compare with another form of Tora.
TORI (תּוֹרִי):
Hebrew name meaning “my turtledove.” Compare with another form of Tori.
TOVA (טוֹבָה):
Hebrew name meaning “good.” Compare with another form of Tova.
TOVAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Tova, meaning “good.”
TSERUWYAH (צְרוּיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “balsam” or “cleft.” In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Jesse.
TSIBYA (צִבְיָא):
Hebrew name meaning “a female gazelle.” In the bible, this is the name of a Benjamite.
TSIBYAH (צִבְיָה):
Hebrew name meaning “a female gazelle.” In the bible, this is the name of the mother of King Joash.
TSILLAH (צִלָה):
Hebrew name meaning “shade, shadow.” In the bible, this is the name of Lamech’s second wife.
TSIPPORAH (צִפּוֹרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “bird.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of Moses. The Anglicized form is Zipporah.
TSIYBA (צִיבָא):
Hebrew name meaning “a plant.” In the bible, this is the name of a servant of Saul. Ziba is the Anglicized form.
TZERUYA (צְרוּיָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Tseruwyah, meaning “balsam” or “cleft.”
TZILA (צִלָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Tsillah, meaning “shade, shadow.”
TZIPORAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Tsipporah, meaning “bird.”
TZIVYA (צִבְיָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Tsibyah, meaning “a female gazelle.”
TZOFI (צוֹפִי):
Hebrew name meaning “guard” or “scout.”
TZUFIT (צוּפִית):
Feminine form of Hebrew Tzuf, meaning “flow, overflow,” hence “honey as dropping.”
UDIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Udiya, meaning “fire of God.
“UDIYA (אוּדִיָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “ember (or fire) of God.”
UFARA (עוּפָרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “leader.”
ULA (עוּלָא):
Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Ulla, meaning “yoke.” Compare with other forms of Ula.
ULLA (עוּלָא):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “yoke.” In the bible, this is the name of a male member of the tribe of Asher. Compare with other forms of Ulla.
UMA (אֻמָה):
Hebrew name meaning “nation.” Compare with another form of Uma.
UMARIT (אוּמָרִית):
Hebrew name meaning “sheaf.”
UPHARA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Ufara, meaning “leader.”
URANIT (אוּרָנִית):
Hebrew name meaning “light.”
URIT (אוּרִית):
Hebrew name meaning “fire, light.”
URITH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Urit, meaning “fire, light.”
URITI:
Variant form of Hebrew Urit, meaning “fire, light.”
USHARA (אוּשָׁרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “fortunate.”
USHERET:
Variant form of Hebrew Ushara, meaning “fortunate.”
USHRIA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Ushriya, meaning “blessed of God” or “fortunate of God.”
USHRIYA (אוּשְׁרִיָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “blessed of God” or “fortunate of God.”
UWRIYELA (אוּרִיאֵלָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Uwriyel, meaning “flame of God” or “light of the Lord.”
VARDA (וַרְדָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “rose.”
VARDAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Varda, meaning “rose.”
VASHTIY (וַשְׁתִּי):
Hebrew form of Persian Vashti, meaning “beautiful.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of king Ahasuerus who was replaced by Esther.
VERED (וֶרֶד):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “rose.”
YAA (יָאָה):
Hebrew name meaning “beautiful.” Compare with another form of Yaa.
YAEL (יָעֵל):
Hebrew name meaning “chamois,” “ibex,” or “mountain goat.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of Heber the Kenite who killed general Sisera, an enemy of the Israelites.
YAFFA (יָפָה):
Hebrew name meaning “beautiful.”
YARDEN (יַרְדָן):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “flowing down.” In the bible, this is the name of a river in Palestine.
YARDENA (יַרְדָנָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew unisex Yarden, meaning “flowing down.”
YARONA:
Feminine form of Hebrew Yaron, meaning “to shout and sing.”
YEDIDA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yediydah, meaning “friend” or “beloved.”
YEDIYDAH (יְדִידָה):
Hebrew name meaning “friend” or “beloved.” In the bible, this is the name of the mother of king Josiah.
YEHUDIT:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yehuwdiyth, meaning “Jewess” or “praised.”
YEHUWDIYTH (יְהוּדִית):
Hebrew name meaning “Jewess” or “praised.” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of Esau. In the Book of Judith she beheads an Assyrian commander while he’s sleeping.
YEMIMA (יְמִימָה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yemiymah, meaning “dove.”
YEMIYMAH (יְמִימָה):
Hebrew name meaning “dove.” In the bible, this is the name of one of Job’s three daughters.
YERUSHA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yeruwsha, meaning “dispossessor” or “possessed (by a husband).”
YERUWSHA (יְרוּשָׁה):
Hebrew name meaning “dispossessor” or “possessed (by a husband).” In the bible, this is the name of the wife of King Uzziah.
YICKAH (יִסְכָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “one who beholds” or “one who looks out.” In the bible, this is the name of the sister of Lot.
YISKA (יִסְכָּה):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yickah, meaning “one who beholds” or “one who looks out.”
YISKAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yiska, meaning “one who beholds” or “one who looks out.”
YOCHANA (יוֹחָנָה):
Feminine form of Hebrew Yochanan, meaning “God is gracious.”
YOCHEBED (יוֹכֶכֶד):
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yowkebed, meaning “God is glory.”
YOCHEVED:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yowkebed, meaning “God is glory.”
YONIT (יוֹנִית):
Feminine form of Hebrew Yonah, meaning “dove.”
YOWKEBED (יוֹכֶכֶד):
Hebrew name meaning “God is glory.” In the bible, this is the name of the mother of Miriam, Aaron and Moses.
ZAKIAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Zakiya, meaning “pure.”
ZAKIYA (זַכִּיָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “pure.”
ZAKIYYA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Zakiya, meaning “pure.”
ZARA (זָרָה):
Hebrew name meaning “stranger.” Compare with another form of Zara.
ZAYIT (זַיִת):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “olive.”
ZELPAH:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Zelpha, meaning “to trickle” or “youthful.”
ZELPHA:
Variant spelling of Hebrew Zylpha, meaning “to trickle” or “youthful.”
ZILPAH (זִלְפָּה):
Hebrew name meaning “to trickle” or “youthful.” In the bible, this is the name of one of Jacob’s wives and the servant of Leah.
ZIVA (זִיוָה):
Hebrew name meaning “brilliance, splendor.”
ZIVIT (זִיוִית):
Variant form of Hebrew Ziva, meaning “brilliance, splendor.”
ZOHAR (זׄהַר):
Hebrew unisex name meaning “brilliant.”
ZYLPHA:
Variant form of Hebrew Zilpah, meaning “to trickle” or “youthful.”
