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Jewish Names for Boys

There are 15 Jewish names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Jewish names 1 to 15. Samuel was the most popular among these names in 2008. The name is primarily used in English, French, and German, and it was followed in popularity by the English, Hebrew, and Yiddish Eli, the English and Hebrew Israel, the English, German, and Hungarian Saul, the English Nehemiah, the English, Hebrew, Romanian, and Slavic Solomon, and the English, French, German, and Hebrew name, Raphael. The unusual Jewish names are Chayim (Hebrew), Ilan (Hebrew), Isidore (English and French), Jehovah (English), Lilith (German), Menahem (Hebrew), Moreno (German, Italian, Slavic, and Spanish), and Nahum (English, German, and Hebrew).

Jewish names are fairly popular baby names for boys. The names have been increasing in popularity since the 1960s. At the recent height of their usage in 2008, 1.008% of baby boys were given Jewish names. There were 7 Jewish names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. In 2008, within all Jewish names, the English, French, and German Samuel was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #28 and a usage of 0.5829%.

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Chayim life ... Jewish tradition and the Kaballah, the name helps ...

Eli Popularity Trend of Eli
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 100 100 height, ascension; God is salvation; my God is Yahweh; God is help, God is my helper; God has helped ...

Ilan tree ...Ilan is a modern Jewish name. ...

Isidore Popularity Trend of Isidore
from 1900 to 2008. gift of Isis ... equivalent of the Jewish Isaiah then, but by the ...

Israel Popularity Trend of Israel
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 210 210 he who struggles with ... but is today mostly a Jewish name. ...

Jehovah I am who is ... unfamiliar with the Jewish tradition of using ...

Lilith of the night ... apocryphal texts, Jewish and Islamic lore, Lilith ...

Menahem comforter; full of comfort ... widely used in the Jewish community ...

Moreno brown, brown-haired ... Spanish, Portuguese and Jewish surname, itself ...

Nahum comforter; full of comfort ... been popular within the Jewish community; among ...

Nehemiah Popularity Trend of Nehemiah
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 364 364 comforted by Yahweh; ... Bible, Nehemiah was a Jewish governor of Judea who ...

Raphael Popularity Trend of Raphael
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 630 630 God has healed ... medieval use was mainly Jewish, before its widespread ...

Samuel Popularity Trend of Samuel
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 28 28 God has heard; asked ... traditionally been a Jewish name; it was later ...

Saul Popularity Trend of Saul
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 329 329 asked for, prayed for ... as the original Jewish name of the apostle ...

Solomon Popularity Trend of Solomon
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 429 429 peace ... has traditionally been Jewish; it was first adopted ...


Popularity Trend
for Jewish Names
from 1900 to 2006Variant Popularity Chart
for Jewish Names
in 2006