Entry № 11760 · Yiddish origin

Yentl Yentl — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YEN-tul /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yiddish
Meaning
"Noble, refined"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "noble, refined".

Yentl means noble and refined, from a root for gentle high birth. It carries dignity and warmth.

It reads fine and warm, a noble name.

Noble, refined — a Yiddish name.

The name in its native script.

Yentl
Transliteration
Yentl
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɛn.tl̩ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yentl stands.

Yentl 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.

Yentls before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Yentl.

The number behind Yentl.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yentl reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.