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 and male given name, from the Hebrew meaning "ibex"

People with this 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

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