Entry № 4470 · Hebrew origin

Ilanit Ilanit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-lah-NEET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Little tree (Eurovision 1973)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Hebrew)

A name that means "little tree (eurovision 1973)".

Ilanit is from the Hebrew אילנית (ʾĪlānīt — little tree) — diminutive of Hebrew ʾīlān (tree). Ilanit is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Israeli + Jewish heritage.

Little tree (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

אילנית
Transliteration
ʾĪlānīt
Pronunciation
/ iːlɑːˈniːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ilanit stands.

Ilanit 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.

Ilanits before her.

Real people
Ilanit / Hanna Drezner-Tzakh
Israeli pop singer + represented Israel in first Israeli entry to Eurovision Song Contest 1973 + Ey Sham 4th place + 1979 Israel hosted Eurovision.
born 1947
In fiction
Etz Chaim / Tree of Life
Hebrew tree heritage + Tu BiShvat New Year of Trees + Etz Chaim Tree of Life Jewish + Kabbalistic + Sefirot + Zohar + Etz Chaim Hi liturgical text.
Hebrew + Kabbalah

Names connected to Ilanit.

The number behind Ilanit.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ilanit reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.