List of biblical names

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1863

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Easton's Bible Dictionary 1894

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Nave's Topical Bible 1905

Names play a variety of roles in the Bible. They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool".[1] Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations, or are used to illustrate prophecies.[2][clarification needed]

## Contents

* 1 Most popular names
* 2 Lists
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 Further reading
* 6 External links

## Most popular names[edit | edit source]

During the period 330 BC – 200 AD, the most common male names in Judea or post Kingdom of Israel were:[3]

* 1\. Simon/Simeon
* 2\. Joseph/Joses
* 3\. Lazarus
* 4\. Judah
* 5\. John
* 6\. Jesus
* 7\. Ananias
* 8\. Jonathan
* 9\. Matthew/Matthias
* 10\. Manaen
* 11\. James

During this period, the most common female names were:[3]

* 1\. Mary
* 2\. Salome
* 3\. Shelamzion
* 4\. Martha
* 5-6. Joanna and Sapphira (equally common)
* 7\. Berenice
* 8-9. Imma and Mara (equally common)
* 10-12. Cyprus, Sarah, and Alexandra

## Lists[edit | edit source]

* List of biblical names starting with A
* List of biblical names starting with B
* List of biblical names starting with C
* List of biblical names starting with D
* List of biblical names starting with E
* List of biblical names starting with F
* List of biblical names starting with G
* List of biblical names starting with H
* List of biblical names starting with I
* List of biblical names starting with J
* List of biblical names starting with K
* List of biblical names starting with L
* List of biblical names starting with M
* List of biblical names starting with N
* List of biblical names starting with O
* List of biblical names starting with P
* List of biblical names starting with Q
* List of biblical names starting with R
* List of biblical names starting with S
* List of biblical names starting with T
* List of biblical names starting with U
* List of biblical names starting with V
* List of biblical names starting with Y
* List of biblical names starting with Z

## See also[edit | edit source]

* Genealogies in the Bible
* List of major biblical figures
* List of minor Old Testament figures, A–K
* List of minor Old Testament figures, L–Z
* List of minor New Testament figures
* List of biblical places
* List of animals in the Bible
* List of plants in the Bible
* Gemstones in the Bible
* List of women in the Bible
* List of names for the biblical nameless
* List of modern names for biblical place names
* Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible - for which later editions contain A complete list of Scripture Proper Names as in the Authorised and Revised Versions, showing their modern pronunciation and the exact form of the original Hebrew by Wm. B. Stevenson.
* Theophory

## References[edit | edit source]

1. ^ See 1 Samuel 25:25
2. ^ Lockyer, pp. 11-14
3. ^ a b Bauckham, Richard (2017). "Palestinian Jewish Names". Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (2nd ed.). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. pp. 67–92. ISBN 978-0-8028-7431-3.

## Further reading[edit | edit source]

* Comay, Joan, Who's Who in the Old Testament, Oxford University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-19-521029-8
* Elwell, Walter A., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Baker Publishing Group, 1984, ISB 9781441200303
* Lockyer, Herbert, All the men of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing House (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1958
* Lockyer, Herbert, All the women of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28151-2
* Lockyer, Herbert, All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28041-9
* Tischler, Nancy M., All things in the Bible: an encyclopedia of the biblical world , Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. : 2006 ISBN 0-313-33082-4

## External links[edit | edit source]

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* Nave's Topical Bible
* Smith's Bible Dictionary
* Easton's Bible Dictionary
* Catholic Encyclopedia 1917
* New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (Dictionary edition)

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Personal names and anthroponymy

* Personal identity

Personal name|

* Given name
* Surname
* Patrilineal/Matrilineal
* Affixes
* Nobiliary particle

By sequence|

* First name
* Middle name
* Last name

By trait|

* Diminutive
* Double-barrelled
* Epithet
* Common epithets
* Eponymic
* Matronymic
* Metonymic
* Mononymic
* Occupational name
* Patronymic
* Surname
* Sobriquet
* Teknonymic
* Toponymic
* Surname
* Patrial name
* Unisex

By life situation|

* Aptronym
* Code name
* Maiden and married names
* Necronym
* Posthumous name
* Temple name
* Placeholder name
* Notname
* Regnal name
* Slave name

Pseudonyms (list)|

* Art name
* Bugō
* Nicknames
* list
* Hypocorism
* Nom de guerre
* Pen name
* Heteronym
* Ring name
* Shikona
* Stage name
* List
* Mononyms
* Username

By culture
Surnames by country|

| East Asian|

* Chinese
* Courtesy
* Art
* Generation
* Japanese
* Amami
* Okinawan
* Korean
* Manchu
* Mongolian
* Taiwanese aboriginal
* Tibetan
* Vietnamese

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Muslim world
and Western Asia|

* Afghan
* Albanian
* Arabic
* Azerbaijani
* Bangladeshi
* Indonesian
* Balinese
* Chinese
* Javanese
* Malaysian
* Mandaean
* Pakistani
* Sindhi
* Pashtun
* Persian
* Somali
* Tatar
* Turkish

Oceania|

* Australian Aboriginal
* Fijian
* Hawaiian
* Māori

Sub-Saharan Africa|

* Ashanti
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Ethiopian and Eritrean
* Ewe
* Ghanaian
* Igbo
* Yoruba
* Zimbabwean

Europe, North America
and Australasia|

* Armenian
* Ashkenazi Jewish
* Basque
* Celtic
* Cornish
* Irish
* Manx
* Scottish
* Welsh
* Finnish
* French
* Georgian
* Germanic
* Dutch
* English
* American
* African-American
* Canadian
* Hongkongese
* German
* Gothic
* Icelandic
* Scandinavian
* Swedish
* Greek
* Ancient Greek
* Cypriot
* Hungarian
* Italian
* Kalmyk
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Portuguese
* Roman
* Praenomen
* Nomen
* Cognomen
* Agnomen
* Romanian
* Slavic
* Bulgarian
* Croatian
* Czech
* Eastern Slavic
* Belarusian
* Russian
* Ukrainian
* Macedonian
* Polish
* Serbian
* Slovak
* Suffixes
* Spanish
* Hispanic America
* Sakha

Greater India (South Asia
and Southeast Asia)|

* Burmese
* Cambodian
* Filipino
* Indian
* Saint Thomas Christian
* Ancient Tamil country
* Lao
* Sinhalese
* Thai

By religion|

* Christian name
* Biblical name
* Papal name
* Saint's name
* Buddhist surname
* Dharma name
* Jewish name
* Hebrew
* Mandaean name
* Theophoric name

Manners of address
List
of authority/of honour|

| Styles|

* Honorific
* Diplomatic
* Imperial, royal, and noble
* Judiciary
* Religious
* Ecclesiastical
* Pre-nominal letters
* Suffix
* Emeritus
* Post-nominal letters
* Academic
* Orders, decorations, and medals

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Titles|

* Academic
* Imperial, royal and noble
* Chivalric
* Courtesy
* False
* Hereditary
* Subsidiary
* Substantive
* Military
* Professional
* Academic
* Educational
* Honorary
* Business
* Diplomatic
* Judicial
* Religious
* Ecclesiastical

Related traditions|

* Baptism
* Name day
* Calendar of saints

Related|

* Acronym
* Anonymity
* Anthropomorphism
* Personification
* National
* Call sign
* Family
* Galton–Watson process
* Legal name
* Name change
* List
* Given
* Surname
* Nomenclature
* Nomen nescio
* Onomastics
* -onym
* Personal identity
* Identifier
* Proper name
* Signature
* Monogram
* Royal cypher
* Khelrtva
* Signum manus
* Tughra
* Surnames by country
* Naming taboo

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