Entry № 5489 · Hebrew origin

Kineret Kineret — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kee-NEH-ret /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Iconic Sea of Galilee"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "iconic sea of galilee".

Kineret is from the Hebrew Kinneret (כִּנֶּרֶת — harp; referring to the harp-shaped Sea of Galilee). Kineret Tehila — modern Israeli singer. Princess Kineret — Israeli heritage naming.

Sea of Galilee (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

כִּנֶּרֶת
Transliteration
Kinneret
Pronunciation
/ kiːˈnɛ.rɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kineret stands.

Kineret 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.

Kinerets before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kineret (Sea of Galilee)
Iconic Israeli landscape + Rachel's poem.

Names connected to Kineret.

The number behind Kineret.

1

The Leader

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