Hebrew
unisex names.
5 unisex 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 unisex side specifically, Jordan, Jessie, and Jackie 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 5 Hebrew unisex 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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