Jael - Meaning of Jael

What does Jael mean?

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Jael

[ 1 syll. jae(l), ja-el ] The baby boy name Jael is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is JHEYL or JHEY-ahL in English †. Jael is derived from Hebrew origins. The name is of the meaning mountain goat. See Jael for more information.

Jaele, Jayl, and Yael are variants of Jael.

See also the related categories, goat, mountain, and hebrew.

Jael is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 2012, 0.010% of baby boys were given the name Jael. Its ranking then was #989. The baby name has since experienced a loss in popularity, and is now of infrequent use. In 2018, within the group of boy names directly linked to Jael, Yael was the most popular. Jael has predominantly been a baby boy name in the past century.

Baby names that sound like Jael include Jale, Jayl, Jayle, Jal, Jalâl, Jall, Jel, Jewel, Joel, Joell, Joelle, Joël, Jole, Jowell, Jule, Gyl, Gyle, Gyll, Jaali, and Jackal.

† Pronunciation for Jael: JH as in "joy (JH.OY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)"