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111 Names of Hebrew Origin

111 published names carry a Hebrew part in our data: 22 girl names, 87 boy names and 2 unisex names. 38 have a Documented meaning, 0 a Likely one and 73 an Editorial one, and the label is shown on every card.

Hebrew names are used most in Uyghur, Turkish and Kazakh, and they fall most often under the themes love and affection, leadership and nobility and life and soul. Browse the full list below, filter it, or read how Hebrew names came into Turkic naming.

28 names

  • Abil

    “majestic, huge, giant”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Adəm

    “man, made of earth”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bunyamin

    “name of the prophet Yusuf's younger brother”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Cebrail

    “God is my strength”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Danyal

    “God is my judge”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Elisa

    “God is my oath”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Eyüp

    “one who turns back (repents)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Boy1 syllableEditorial

  • Hacer

    “stranger, one who departed”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Harun

    “Aaron (Prophet Harun)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Havva

    “Eve, the first woman”
    From Arabic (from Hebrew) · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • İbrahim

    “Abraham (name of the patriarch and prophet)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • İlyas

    “Elijah (name of the prophet)”
    From Arabic (from Greek and Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İshak

    “Isaac (name of the patriarch and prophet)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Isma'il

    “one who carries out God's command; God heard”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Kənan

    “lowland”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Mikâil

    “who is like God?”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Musa

    “Moses (the prophet's name)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nisan

    “April”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Nuh

    “grief, weeping”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Safir

    “sapphire”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Sara

    “princess, noblewoman”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Semiramis

    “legendary Assyrian queen”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Girl4 syllablesEditorial

  • Süleyman

    “Solomon (Prophet Sulaiman)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Tevrat

    “the Torah”
    From Hebrew · Turkish
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yunus

    “Jonah (name of the prophet)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Yunus Emre

    “Jonah (dove) + Emre”
    From Hebrew and Turkish · Turkish
    Boy4 syllablesEditorial

  • Yusuf

    “Joseph (the prophet's name)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Zekeriya

    “YH has remembered”
    From Ottoman Turkish and Arabic and Classical Syriac and Biblical Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

What counts as a Hebrew name here

A published name belongs to this page when any part of its origin label matches the word "hebrew". Labels that also mention another language, for example Arabic + Turkic, count here too.

74 of the 111 names have only Hebrew parts. The other 37 combine Hebrew with Arabic (29), Persian (8) and Turkic (3), so they also appear on those origin pages.

Background: Hebrew names in Turkic languages

Hebrew names in Turkic languages mostly arrive through the Quran and Islamic tradition, where prophets known from the Hebrew Bible appear in Arabic forms, and in some communities through Christian or Jewish naming.

Because they travelled through Arabic, many of these names do not look like their Hebrew originals. Our origin rows record Hebrew as the origin of the root, while the form you see in a Turkic language is often the Arabic-influenced one. Hebrew is a small group in our data, and each name carries its own source label.

Which languages use Hebrew names

Hebrew names are recorded most often for Uyghur (45 names), Turkish (28 names) and Kazakh (26 names). In all, 9 languages have at least one Hebrew name in our data. A name used in several languages is counted once for each, so these numbers add up to more than 111.

Use the language buttons above the list to see only one language; they appear when the language has at least 12 Hebrew names.

What Hebrew names mean

By documented meaning theme, Hebrew names fall most often under love and affection (8), leadership and nobility (5), life and soul (3) and strength and courage (2). Of the 111 names, 38 (34 percent) have a Documented meaning, 0 are Likely and 73 are Editorial.

Building blocks that recur in these names include can (soul; life); each one links to its own page with the other names that use it.

Girl, boy and unisex Hebrew names

The list holds 22 girl names, 87 boy names and 2 unisex names. Gender is recorded per language, so a name that is unisex in one language can be used for one gender only in another; the table on each name page shows this.

Choosing a Hebrew name

If you are drawn to a prophet's name, compare the Turkic form with the other forms listed on the name page. The related-names links show variants that share a root, and the label shows whether the origin is cited or comes from our editorial research.

Example Hebrew names

A short selection of published names of Hebrew origin, such as Repa'il, Shahdawud and Suriye, with documented meanings first. Open any card to read the meaning, the origin sentence and the sources.

  • Repa'il

    “God-given”
    From Hebrew · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Shahdawud

    “Dawud with the epithet shah”
    From Persian and Hebrew · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Suriye

    “name of a country”
    From Hebrew · Uyghur
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bilqis

    “name of the prophet Sulayman's wife”
    From Hebrew · Uyghur, Uzbek
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Hewwanisa

    “woman like Mother Hawa (Eve)”
    From Hebrew and Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl4 syllablesDocumented

  • Yusuf

    “Joseph (the prophet's name)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Isma'il

    “one who carries out God's command; God heard”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ebumusa

    “father of Musa”
    From Arabic and Hebrew · Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Bunyamin

    “name of the prophet Yusuf's younger brother”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Questions and answers

What is a Hebrew name on this site?

A published name whose origin record names Hebrew. Right now that is 111 names, and the number changes when names are published or corrected.

How many Hebrew names are girl names or boy names?

22 are girl names, 87 are boy names and 2 are unisex. The gender shown is the one recorded in our data, and it can differ between languages.

Which language has the most Hebrew names?

Uyghur has the most, with 45 names, followed by Turkish (28). These counts show how many names we have researched for each language, not how common the names are.

Are Hebrew-origin names also used as Turkic names?

Yes, when our data records them for a Turkic language. They are shared names: the origin is Hebrew, the use is local, and the spelling follows the language that adopted them.

Do Hebrew names mix with other origins?

Yes: 37 of 111 names combine Hebrew with another origin, most often Arabic (29 names). They appear on every origin page they belong to.

How reliable are the meanings of Hebrew names here?

38 of 111 have a Documented meaning backed by a cited source, 0 are Likely, and 73 come from our own editorial research. The label is shown on every name card and name page.

Is a name of Hebrew origin a Jewish name?

Not necessarily. Origin tells where the root of the name comes from. Names of this kind are used by Muslim, Christian and Jewish families alike, and in Turkic languages they usually came through Arabic.

Data & methodology

This page is built from the origin records of published names: 111 names match the Hebrew pattern, and 37 of them also carry another origin. 111 names have a meaning label.

Published names
17,111 (17,111 with a meaning)
Documented
7,386 · cited source
Likely
376 · composed or plausible
Editorial
9,349 · our own research
Languages
10
Sources listed
3,863
Names on this page
111
Languages
9
Last data update
1 November 2026

Read more in Sources and methodology and the Editorial policy.

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