Yael (name)

Yael

Gender	Female
Language(s)	Hebrew
Origin
Word/name	Judaic
Meaning	Nubian Ibex
Region of origin	Near Eastern
Other names
Alternative spelling	Iael, Iaël, Jael, Jaël, Yaël, Ιαήλ (Greek)

Yael (Hebrew: יעל, pronounced [jaˈʔel]; also spelled Jael) is a female given name, from the Hebrew word meaning the “Strength of God”.

People with this name

Given name

• Yael, Biblical figure in the Book of Judges
• Jaël, Swiss singer/songwriter
• Jael (artist), American fantasy artist/illustrator
• Jael Strauss, contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 8
• Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
• Yael Arad, Israeli Olympic-medalist judoka
• Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
• Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress, model, and television host
• Yael Bartana, Israeli video artist
• Yael Cohen, founder and CEO of Fuck Cancer
• Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
• Yael Eckstein, senior vice president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
• Yael S. Feldman, Israeli-born American scholar
• Yael German, Israeli politician
• Yael Goldman, Israeli actress, TV host, and model
• Yael Grobglas, Israeli actress
• Yaël Hassan, French-Israeli writer
• Yael Tauman Kalai, Israeli-American cryptographer
• Yael Kanarek, Israeli-American artist
• Yael Kraus, Israeli singer/songwriter
• Yael Goldstein Love, novelist, editor, and book critic
• Yael Markovich, Israeli-American model and Israeli beauty queen titleholder
• Yael Meyer, singer, songwriter, musician, and producer
• Yael Naim, French-Israeli singer/songwriter
• Yael Neeman, Israeli author
• Yael Rom (born Yael Finkelstein), one of the first female pilots of the Israeli Air Force
• Yael Stone, Australian actress
• Yael Tal, Israeli actress
• Yael Tamir, Israeli academic and politician
• Yael Yuzon, Filipino vocalist and guitarist
• The Hebrew name adopted by Ivanka Trump, after converting to Judaism

Middle name

• Jenifer Yaël Dadouche-Bartoli, French pop singer
• Daniela Yael Krukower, Israeli-Argentinean judoka world champion
• Jamie Yaela Maurer, American photographer

Fictional characters

• Jael (Alice Jael Reasoner), assassin in Joanna Russ' 1975 novel The Female Man
• Yael, woman in ancient Israel who escapes the massacre at Masada in Alice Hoffman's 2011 novel The Dovekeepers
• Yael Aronov in John Sanford's 2013 novel Storm Front
• Yael Baron (portrayed by Jamie Bloch) in Netflix's original series Degrassi: Next Class
• Yael, protagonist in the alternate history novel Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin.
• Yael Hoffman (portrayed by Meital Dohan) in the series Weeds

Music

• Yael Naim, second studio album by Yael Naïm

See also

• Merkaz Yael, a village in northern Israel