Entry № 3711 · Yiddish origin

Glikl Glikl — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GLIK-el /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yiddish
Meaning
"Luck (Glikl of Hameln, Yiddish memoirist)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Yiddish)

A name that means "luck (glikl of hameln, yiddish memoirist)".

Glikl is from the Yiddish-Germanic glik (luck, happiness). Glikl of Hameln (1646-1724) was the German-Jewish businesswoman and author of one of the first known autobiographies by a Jewish woman — written in Yiddish for her children after her first husband's death. A vivid account of 17th-century Jewish life, business, and motherhood.

Translated into many languages; Yiddish literary milestone.

Luck. The German-Jewish businesswoman who wrote the first Yiddish autobiography.

The name in its native script.

גליקל
Transliteration
Glikl
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡlɪk.əl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Glikl stands.

Glikl 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.

Glikls before her.

Real people
Glikl of Hameln
Yiddish memoirist.
1646 – 1724
In fiction
Glikl
Subject of Natalie Zemon Davis's Women on the Margins.
1995

Names connected to Glikl.

The number behind Glikl.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Glikl reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.