Baby Names from the Bible

Posted January 23rd @ 10:23 am by Chris Salzman Print This Post

Slactivist riffs off the SSA list of most common names of 2007 by creating a list of 7 biblical names for girls that are due for a comeback.

Clicking on the names will take you to the woman’s respective bible passages:

1. Tirzah
2. Jael
3. Deborah
4. Sophia: as in the greek name for wisdom.
5. Susanna
6. Phoebe
7. Priscilla

Any that you’d add?

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17 Comments

Kyle
January 23, 2008 at 11:09

Lo-Ruhamah from Hosea 1:6
Chris Robinson
January 23, 2008 at 11:25

Dorcas.
The Aesthetic Elevator
January 23, 2008 at 12:21

I’ve always liked Hepsabah, but my wife won’t have it.

Know of at least two people who’ve named their kids Hadassah in the last year or two.
Jenn
January 23, 2008 at 12:55

How about Vashti (actually saw that in the paper yesterday), Esther, Tamar, Abigail, or Jezebel?
John Ferguson
January 23, 2008 at 14:55

A friend of mine named his daughter Keturah.

She was a wife of Abraham. Apparently her name means fragrance.

Jezebel atually means ‘chaste’ according to my Thomson Chain Reference.
Leslie
January 23, 2008 at 15:12

Sarah…who fulfilled God’s promise.
Amy
January 23, 2008 at 15:12

I think Esther, Ruth and Naomi are all great and underused Biblical names.
James McGrath
January 23, 2008 at 16:11

Girls’ names have now been covered adequately, so let me suggest that for a boy, one can hardly do better than Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz…
Donald
January 23, 2008 at 19:19

My three month old Grand daughters name is Jenesis instead of with a G.
Michelle
January 24, 2008 at 06:06

Lael
jo anne
January 24, 2008 at 09:54

I was happy to learn that mine, joanna, was in the Scriptures, but I have been trying to name someone in my family Phoebe for 20 yrs…all the way from my daughter to our pets. No one will go with me. :~(

I love that name.
Camilla
January 24, 2008 at 15:18

How about Lydia?
Scott St. Onge
January 25, 2008 at 07:00

We like the name Grace for a girl.
Kez
January 25, 2008 at 10:40

I recently named my daughter, ‘Selah’. Hebrew word in the Psalms.
Heather
January 25, 2008 at 11:37

I love Serenity and hope one day we can have a daughter and name her serenity!
danr
January 25, 2008 at 19:38

Bathsheba – can give rise to two cool nicknames: Bath or Sheba
Colette
January 29, 2008 at 22:17

I just met a girl name Naphatle (sp?) after an Isreali tribe. Her father was in grad school when she was born. Her brother is named Thomas!