Entry № 4868 · Hebrew origin

Jecoliah Jecoliah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jeh-KOH-lee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"YHWH is able (Uzziah's mother)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "yhwh is able (uzziah's mother)".

Jecoliah (יְכָלְיָה) means "YHWH is able" or "YHWH has prevailed" in Hebrew. In 2 Kings 15:2, Jecoliah was the mother of King Uzziah (Azariah) of Judah — one of Judah's most prosperous rulers, whose 52-year reign coincided with the prophet Isaiah's early years.

Rare but iconic in biblical scholarship.

YHWH is able. Mother of King Uzziah of Judah.

The name in its native script.

יְכָלְיָה
Transliteration
Yəḵolyāh
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈkoʊ.li.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jecoliah stands.

Jecoliah 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.

Jecoliahs before her.

Real people
Jecoliah
Mother of King Uzziah.
In fiction
Jecoliah
2 Kings 15:2.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Jecoliah.

The number behind Jecoliah.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jecoliah reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.