Entry № 1142 · Hebrew origin

Ayelet Ayelet — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-YEH-let /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Morning star, gazelle (Hebrew)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "morning star, gazelle (hebrew)".

Ayelet (אַיֶּלֶת) is the Hebrew word for "gazelle" or, in the phrase ayelet ha-shahar, "morning star." The phrase appears in Psalm 22's superscription.

Ayelet Shaked (born 1976) is the Israeli politician; Ayelet Waldman (born 1964) is the American-Israeli novelist.

Morning star, gazelle. The Hebrew.

The name in its native script.

אַיֶּלֶת
Transliteration
ʾAyyélet
Pronunciation
/ ɑːˈjɛ.lɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ayelet stands.

Ayelet does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ayelets before her.

Real people
Ayelet Shaked
Israeli politician.
born 1976
Ayelet Waldman
American-Israeli novelist.
born 1964
In fiction
Ayelet
Common in Israeli fiction.

Names connected to Ayelet.

The number behind Ayelet.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ayelet reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.