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Heskel - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Heskel

[ syll. hes-kel, he-sk-el ] The boy name Heskel is pronounced as HHEHSKahL KEY. Heskel is primarily used in Yiddish and Hebrew, and its language of origin is Hebrew.

Heskel is a Hebrew variant form of the Yiddish and English name Haskel.

Heskel is also a Yiddish variant form of the English name Ezekiel.

Heskel is seldom used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. Within the group of boy names directly related to Heskel, the English Ezekiel was the most popular in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Heskel include the Yiddish and English Haskel, the English and Hebrew Haskell, the name Hassel, the Yiddish Heschel, the Yiddish Heshel, the English Huxley, and the Finnish and German Hesekiel.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Heskel: HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"


 
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