Yiddish Girl Names

Explore names documented in Yiddish naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1957.

72#2,479
Down 385 rank positions in five years
1991

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1932.

342#796
Down 90 rank positions in five years
2019

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1968.

75#2,404
Up 653 rank positions in five years
1988

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1947.

147#1,466
Up 523 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1956.

100#1,940
Down 354 rank positions in five years
2012

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1955.

146#1,467
Up 105 rank positions in five years
2024

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1963.

45#3,415
Up 3 rank positions in five years
2024

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979.

72#2,465
Up 644 rank positions in five years
2024

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972.

32#4,443
Up 1,196 rank positions in five years
2021

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1952.

8#11,718
Down 2,300 rank positions in five years
2001

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1928.

5#15,399
Down 2,987 rank positions in five years
1965

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1995.

44#3,495
Up 1,332 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1907.

21#5,752
Up 137 rank positions in five years
2012

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1886.

—Unranked
—
1916

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989.

5#15,325
Down 4,061 rank positions in five years
2014

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1951.

—Unranked
—
1976

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

11#9,057
new
2025

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984.

—Unranked
—
1993

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1999.

5#15,763
new
2011

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984.

—Unranked
—
1985

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1987.

6#14,924
new
1991

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2007.

—Unranked
—
2019

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2023.

—Unranked
—
2024

Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2025.

5#17,080
new
2025

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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