Entry № 4764 · Hebrew origin

Jael Jael — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAH-el /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Mountain goat, wild ibex"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "mountain goat, wild ibex".

Jael (יָעֵל) is the Hebrew word for the mountain ibex or wild goat. In the Book of Judges (4–5), Jael is the Kenite woman who slew the Canaanite general Sisera by driving a tent peg through his temple — celebrated in the Song of Deborah.

Jael is widely used in Israel as Yael. Yael Stone (born 1985) is the Australian actress.

The Kenite woman who slew Sisera.

The name in its native script.

יָעֵל
Transliteration
Yāʿēl
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑː.ɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jael stands.

Jael 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.

Jaels before her.

Real people
Yael Stone
Australian actress.
born 1985
In fiction
Jael
Kenite woman in Book of Judges.
Judges 4–5

Names connected to Jael.

The number behind Jael.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jael reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.