Hebrew
boy names.
50 boy names of Hebrew origin, sorted by U.S. popularity.
Hebrew names are heavily theophoric — they embed the divine name (-el, -yah) into their meaning. Many U.S. classics (Daniel, Sarah, David) trace back to this tradition.
Within the Hebrew boy side specifically, James, Michael, and David are the most-used in the U.S. record — a useful three-point sense of the register, since the rest of the list mostly varies between rarer literary, religious, and modern coinages.
This page shows 50 Hebrew boy names sorted by U.S. SSA totals — so the most-given names sit at the top and the rarer entries toward the bottom.
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