Jewish Baby Names

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• • Yaacov

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: A truly timeless name, Jacob means “to follow” and honors the biblical patriarch and Isaac’s son. There have been many famous Jewish Jacobs throughout history, but at the forefront of our mind is Jake Gyllenhaal, as he recently stole our hearts with a seductive and silly ad for a T-shirt from Russ & Daughters deli.
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• • Yaad

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Goal, purpose
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• • Yaara

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: woodland, or honeycomb
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• • Yadid

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: A friend
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• • Yadin

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God Will Judge
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• • Yadon

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God has heard, thankful
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• • Yael

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Mountain Goat
    
    In the biblical Book of Judges, Yael killed Sisera, the commander of the Canaanite army.
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• • Yafe

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Beautiful, good looking, pleasing to the eye and ear
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• • Yaffa

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Beautiful
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• • Yagil

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Rejoice
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• • Yahav

  • Gender: Gender Neutral
  • Meaning: Hope, someone's share, will bring
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• • Yahel

  • Gender: Gender Neutral
  • Meaning: Will bring light, will spread light, from the Hebrew word for halo
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• • Yaheli

  • Gender: Gender Neutral
  • Meaning: A diminutive of Yahel. Will bring light, from the Hebrew word for halo
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• • Yahli

  • Gender: Gender Neutral
  • Meaning: God is for me
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• • Yair

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Reveal; Enlighten
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• • Yaira

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: To enlighten
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• • Yakim

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Will establish
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• • Yakir

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Dear or Loved
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• • Yakira

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Dear or Loved
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• • Yam

  • Gender: Gender Neutral
  • Meaning: Sea, big body of salty water
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• • Yamima

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Little dove
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• • Yamin

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Right hand
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• • Yanai

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Rabbi Yannai was a Jewish scholar mentioned in the Talmud
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• • Yaniv

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: To Yield or Produce
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• • Yankel

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Supplanter
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• • Yarden

  • Gender: Gender Neutral
  • Meaning: Jordan (the river in Israel)
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• • Yardena

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Jordan (the river in Israel); feminized form of Yarden
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• • Yarkon

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: European greenfinch, the largest river in Israel and the name of several Israeli institutions
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• • Yaron

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: To Sing
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• • Yashiv

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: He will answer
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• • Yasmin

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Jasmine
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• • Yechezkel

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God Strengthens
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• • Yechiel

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God Shall Live
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• • Yechiela

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: God shall live. Female version of Yechiel
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• • Yedida

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Friend
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• • Yedidiah

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Beloved of God
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• • Yehava

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Female possesive form of yahav, her hope
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• • Yehonatan

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God Has Given
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• • Yehoraz

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Secret of God
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• • Yehoshua

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God is Salvation
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• • Yehuda

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Praised
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• • Yehudit

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Praised
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• • Yemima

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: The name of Job's daughter, who was born after God restored his possessions and standing. The name is posited to come from the Hebrew word yom, which means day, and that Yemima was as clear and pure as a new day. Jemimah is the English version of the name. In Arabic it means "dove"
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• • Yenta

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Aristocratic or Noble
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• • Yeor

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Nile river
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• • Yerachmiel

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God Shall Have Mercy
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• • Yered

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Descent
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• • Yermiyahu

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God has Uplifted
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• • Yerucham

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: He Will Show Compassion
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• • Yeshaya

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God is Salvation.
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• • Yeshayahu

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God is Salvation
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• • Yetzer

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Natural inclination
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• • Yifat

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Beauty
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• • Yiftach

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: He Opens
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• • Yigal

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: He Will Liberate
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• • Yigdal

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: One will become grand, he will grow
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• • Yisachar

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Reward
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• • Yishai

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Gift
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• • Yishmael

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God has heard. In the Bible, he was a son of Abraham
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• • Yiska

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Foresight
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• • Yisrael

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Wrestled with God.
    
    In the Bible, Israel is the second name given to Jacob after his match with one of God's angels.
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• • Yisraela

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Wrestled with God.
    
    Yisraela is the feminine form of Yisrael.
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• • Yitro

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: His surplus. In the Bible, he was the father-in-law of Moses
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• • Yitzhak

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Laughter
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• • Yitzhal

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Will be happy
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• • Yoad

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God is eternal
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• • Yoav

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God is the Father
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• • Yochai

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God Lives
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• • Yochanan

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God is Gracious
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• • Yocheved

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: God's Glory
    
    In the Bible, Yocheved was the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
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• • Yoel

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: The Lord is God
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• • Yoela

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: The Lord is God, female version of Yoel/Joel
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• • Yogev

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Someone who works the land
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• • Yomtov

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Good Day; Holiday
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• • Yona

  • Gender: Gender Neutral
  • Meaning: Dove or pigeon
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• • Yonatan

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God has Given
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• • Yonina

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Dove
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• • Yonit

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning: Dove
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• • Yoram

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God is Exalted
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• • Yoreh

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: First rain of the season
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• • Yosef

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Increase
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• • Yosefa

  • Gender: Female
  • Meaning:

    Increase

    Yosefa is the feminine version of Yosef.

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• • Yotam

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: God is Perfect
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• • Yovel

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Jubilee
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• • Yudel

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Praised
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• • Yuli

  • Gender: Gender Neutral
  • Meaning: The Hebrew pronounciation of the month of July. A fairly common Hebrew name, sometimes short of Joel, or Yoel. Yuli Edelstein is the name of an Israeli politician and the country's former minister of health
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• • Yuval

  • Gender: Male
  • Meaning: Stream or River
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