Hebrew is the third largest recorded origin in this catalogue, after Latin and Greek: 179 names, averaging 110 registrations each. Most of them arrive in English through the Bible and have been ordinary English given names for centuries, which is why they read as unremarkable rather than exotic.
How the origin got here
From Wiktionary's own classification — Category:English male given names from Hebrew and its female counterpart. That category means derived from, not used in, which is the distinction that made this page possible: a category of names used in Hebrew would list every biblical name in the language, including the Greek ones.
Nothing here was inferred from spelling. Abby, Simon, Samson and Toby are on the list because a dictionary places them there.
The shape of them
They run long by this catalogue's standards: 117 of the 179 are two syllables and 40 run to three or more, against only 22 single-beat names. 97 classify easy-to-call, the largest sound group here by a distance.
The gender split leans male, 77 to 61. Every one of them is also a name a dictionary lists for people, which follows from how the category is built rather than being a separate finding.
What this page does not claim
A meaning. Not one of these 179 names carries a checked meaning on this site, because origin and meaning come from different places: the category states where a name came from and says nothing about what it means. The site publishes 111 meanings in total and each was read off a cited page word by word.
So if you want to know what Delilah means, this page will not tell you, and that is deliberate. It will tell you that 598 animals in these registers carry it.
What are Hebrew pet names?
Names a dictionary records as English given names derived from Hebrew. 179 of them are in this catalogue, averaging 110 registrations each — the third largest recorded origin here.
What is the most popular Hebrew pet name?
Abby, at 1,341 registrations, then Simon, Samson and Toby. The list is ordered by how many animals carry each name across eleven registers.
Do these names have meanings?
Not on this site. Origin and meaning come from different sources here — the category states where a name came from, not what it means — and no meaning is published unless it was read off a cited page and checked word by word.
Every count on this site is a tally of real registrations: pet licences and shelter intakes published as open data by New York, Seattle, Austin, Montgomery County, Cambridge, Zurich, Basel and four Australian councils. Popularity here is the average share a name holds across those registers, so a name common in a small city is not buried by one common in a large one. Five of the eleven registers are North American and they supply 86% of the records, so read the ordering as naming in those places rather than worldwide. Browse the whole catalogue or read how the data is put together.