40 Hanukkah Baby Names Inspired By The Festival Of Lights

Hanukkah, The Festival of Lights, begins in just one week and spans over the course of 8 days (December 8-16). If you are Jewish or wish to pay tribute to your beliefs, why not give your baby a name that symbolizes the holiday? Naming your baby is such a fun and exciting opportunity to honor loved ones, keep with tradition or introduce new ones.

Here are 40 baby names inspired by Hanukkah that shine brightly.

Boys:

• Abner (meaning Father of Light)
• Alon (meaning oak tree)
• Arin (meaning enlightened)
• Barak (meaning lightening, spark)
• Clay (from lyrics “I had a little dreidel, I made it out of clay”)
• Dreydan/Dreyden (similar to dreidel, a Hanukkah game played with a spinning top)
• Eron (meaning peace, enlightened)
• Ilan (meaning tree)
• Leor (meaning my light)
• Macabee / Maccabee
• Maoz
• Matan (meaning gift)
• Melchior (meaning God is my light)
• Rock (from the Hanukkah song “Rock of Ages”)
• Uriah or Uriel (meaning God is my light)
• Yair (meaning He will enlighten)
• Zohar (meaning light, brilliance)

Girls:

• Chayil (meaning army)
• Eleora or Eliora (“Lord is my light”)
• Israella
• Laila (meaning night)
• Leora or Liora (meaning light/ my light)
• Lenorah (rhymes with menorah)
• Meora (meaning light/brightness)
• Neorah (meaning light)
• Noga (meaning splendor/light)
• Norah (from menorah)
• Orli (meaning you are my light)
• Uriela (also meaning the light of God)
• Urit (meaning light)
• Yitta (meaning light)

Unisex:

• Blaize
• Israel
• Jerusalem
• Judah (Judah Maccabee)
• Judea (the country – now Israel – where the rededication of the temple took place)
• Miracle
• Orel (meaning the light of God)
• Temple
• Victory