Entry № 11789 · Hebrew origin

Yocheved Yocheved — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yo-KHEH-ved /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Glory of God (Moses' mother)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "glory of god (moses' mother)".

Yocheved (יוֹכֶבֶד) is the Hebrew name meaning "glory of God" or "God is glory." In Exodus 6:20, Yocheved was the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam — the matriarch of the Exodus generation.

Yocheved is widely used in religious Jewish families.

Glory of God. The mother of Moses.

The name in its native script.

יוֹכֶבֶד
Transliteration
Yōḵeved
Pronunciation
/ joʊˈxɛ.vɛd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yocheved stands.

Yocheved 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.

Yocheveds before her.

Real people
Yocheved
Common in religious families.
In fiction
Yocheved
Mother of Moses.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Yocheved.

The number behind Yocheved.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yocheved reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.