Ayelet
From the Hebrew for doe or gazelle. Around 120 women in Poland carry it and hardly any girls get it now, so most Poles have never met one.
Ayelet Pronunciation
Ayelet is pronounced ah-ih-E-let (/aɨˈɛlɛt/).
What Ayelet means
Where Ayelet comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ayelet comes from Hebrew, where the word names a doe, or by extension a gazelle. In Polish that is łania, gazela. The name belongs to one of the oldest phrases in the Hebrew Bible.
Psalm 22 carries the heading ayelet ha-shachar, the doe of the dawn. Scholars read it as a musical direction, the tune the psalm was once sung to, though the exact sense is still argued. A girl named Ayelet shares her name with that first grey light. The gazelle returns in the Song of Songs, where the beloved bounds over the hills like a young deer.
In Poland the name is rare, and it would stand out on a class register in Kraków. It keeps close to its Hebrew root and sounds foreign because of that. The name has no diminutive. Ayelet: a doe, and the dawn she was named beside.
How many people are named Ayelet
1 in 183283 women in Poland is named Ayelet. 123 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3027 among female names.
Ayelet as a middle name
Ayelet is a first name for 123 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5585th, between Ayda (2) and Ayfer (2).
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