Bible & Christian Baby Names

A name with a meaning and a story 🤍
Bible Names brings together 4,100+ names from the Bible and the Christian faith, for boys and girls. You get each name's meaning and, for the people of the Bible, who they were and the verse where they appear, in a light app that works without internet.

Bible names and their meanings
• 1,900+ boy names, 900+ girl names and 370+ names for both
• A clear, kind meaning first: John "God is gracious", Emmanuel "God with us", Ruth "friend, companion"
• The language each name comes from: Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Latin, Persian and more

Who they were, with the verse
1,800+ names of people in the Bible, from Aaron to Zipporah. Each page says who they were, and 1,700+ give a verse from the King James Bible where the name appears. Every verse was checked: the name is really in it.
• Ruth: a Moabite woman, ancestor of David and Jesus (Ruth 1:4)
• Hannah: the mother of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 1:2)
• Many people share one name? The page says so: Zachariah "and 29 others of this name"

Old Testament and New Testament
Each Bible name shows its Testament: 1,800+ names from the Old Testament, 400+ from the New.
• Old Testament: Ezra, Caleb, Ezekiel, Esther, Naomi, Leah, Deborah
• New Testament: Peter, Timothy, Silas, Elizabeth, Martha, Lydia, Phoebe
• Both: Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Sarah, Ruth

Christian baby girl names
• 140+ women of the Bible: Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, Ruth, Naomi, Esther, Hannah, Abigail, Mary, Elizabeth, Lydia, Tabitha
• The Bible names few women, so we added 680+ Christian girl names that are not Bible people. Each page says honestly what the name is:
• Virtue names: Grace, Faith, Hope, Joy, Mercy, Blessing, Favour, Precious, with a verse where the Bible uses the word ("grace" in Ephesians 2:8)
• Saints' names: Cecilia, Clare, Teresa, Monica, Bernadette, Agnes, Lucy
• Names for Mary: Maria, Marie, Dolores, Carmen, Regina
• Christmas names and loved forms: Noelle, Natalie, Gabriella, Josephine, Isabella

Christian baby boy names
• Prophets and kings: Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Jonah, David, Solomon, Josiah
• The apostles: Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Thomas, Matthew, Jude
• The archangels Michael and Gabriel
• Saints' names: Patrick, Francis, Benedict, Augustine, Anthony, Dominic

Popular today, or rare
• Loved by parents now: Noah, James, Elijah, Levi, Ezra and Asher are all in the US top 20 for boys (2024); Elizabeth, Abigail, Grace, Naomi, Hannah and Leah in the top 60 for girls
• Rare and full of meaning: Jabez, Bezalel, Barnabas, Junia, Dorcas, Zipporah
• Names Christian families give in Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines: Blessing, Favour, Precious, Testimony, Godswill, Kristel

Every spelling finds the name
• Rebekah, Rebecca · Elizabeth, Elisabeth · Hannah, Hanna
• Zechariah, Zachariah · Isaiah, Esaias · Matthew, Mathew
• Even the rare ones: Epaenetus (Romans 16:5)

Easy search
• Type a name the way you spell it; capitals, spaces and dashes don't matter
• A to Z letter index, and one tap for only boy or only girl names
• Bible places nobody names a child stay out of the list, but search finds them

Enjoy browsing
• Swipe from one name to the next
• Can't decide? The dice 🎲 picks a random popular name
• Save names to Favorites and share them with family

Can't find a name?
Write it in "Request a name" and vote on others' requests. We add the most-voted names first.

Works offline 📴
All names, meanings and verses are inside the app. Only requests, votes and sharing need a connection. No account, no sign-up.

Whether you're looking for Christian baby girl names, Christian baby boy names, Bible names and their meanings, biblical names, Hebrew names, saint names or just the meaning of your own name, Bible Names helps you choose.

May God bless your little one with a long, happy and healthy life 🤍

Bible names data: STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Adapted.