Name: Hillel
Gender: Male
Usage: Hillel, of hebrew origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Hillel are in general originating from France, Israel, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Hillel is: Praise, He that praises.
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Numerology of the first name Hillel: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Hillel is ranked on the 24,149th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 8400 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Hillel has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
We do not have enough data to display the number of people who were given the name Hillel for each year.
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History and Origin
Hillel is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Hillel, the father of Abdon, a minor character in the Book of Judges
- Hillel the Elder (110 BCE – 10 CE), one of the most important religious leaders in Jewish history
- Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, a Jewish scholar in the 3rd century CE
- Hillel II, nasi of the ancient Jewish Sanhedrin between 320 and 385 CE
- Hillel ben Eliakim, 11th and 12th century Greek rabbi and Talmud scholar
- Hillel ben Samuel (c. 1220–1295), Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist
- Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915–1975), Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist
- Shlomo Hillel (born 1923), Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician
- Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), Israeli-American guitarist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Hillel Schwartz, Egyptian Jewish founder of the Iskra party
Jewish: Hebrew name (apparently derived from the Hebrew word meaning ‘praise’) borne in the Bible by the father of one of the Judges of Israel (Judges 12: 13). It was also the name of an outstanding 1st-century rabbi and has been a popular Jewish name as a result of his fame.
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