Yifat
A Hebrew name meaning "beauty, splendor", and one most Poles have never met: only about 34 women in Poland carry it. No newborn girls have been given it this century, so every bearer is already grown.
Yifat Pronunciation
Yifat is pronounced ih-EE-faht (/ɨˈifat/).
What Yifat means
Where Yifat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yifat begins in Hebrew, in the root that also gives yafeh, meaning beautiful, and yofi, meaning beauty. The name reads as splendor. It belongs to Jewish naming tradition, where a girl might be called Yifat with no diminutive and no variant to soften it. The word stands on its own.
The sense of splendor is old. Hebrew poetry uses yofi for the shine of a face, for the good look of a thing well made. A Yifat holds that plain meaning: beauty. Nothing decorative sits between the name and the word it comes from.
On a Polish class register, Yifat sits among the Zofias and Hanias, unusual and easy to read. The teacher reads it once. No name-day for it appears in the Polish calendar, so a Yifat borrows none. The Hebrew word stays: beauty, splendor.
How many people are named Yifat
1 in 663054 women in Poland is named Yifat. 34 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6929 among female names.