30 Jewish Girl Names Derived from Flowers

Alona – This name means oak tree in Hebrew.  Oaks are considered a “keystone” species: one that has a disproportionately large and helpful impact within its ecosystem.  They blossom in bunches of delicate flowers in the Spring.

Bluma – This classic Jewish name comes from the Yiddish word for flower.

Ella – This is the Hebrew name for the Terebinth tree, which is native to the Mediterranean and sprouts bunches of delicate pink and red flowers.

Ilana – This classic Jewish name is derived from the word for oak tree in Hebrew; it can also be used to mean trees more generally.  A variation is Ilanit.  As mentioned above, oak trees blossom into delicate bunches of flowers in the Spring.

Iris – This name refers to the iris flower in both English and Hebrew; these dazzlingly colorful flowers are found in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Irit – This Hebrew name means asphodel flower, a delicate pink or white blossom that thrives in the Middle East and Mediterranean region.

Dalia – This beautiful name resembles the magnificent dahlia flower; in Hebrew it means “branch” or “bough” of a tree.

Degania – This name is derived from the Hebrew word for a grain or cereal, dagan.  Degania is the name of the first kibbutz founded in modern Israel, in the scenic north of the country.  Wheat kernels grow from tiny flowers on each stalk.

Gefen – This modern Hebrew name is the Hebrew word for grapevine.  Grape plants erupt into delicate flowers each Spring.

Kalanit – This name means anemone in Hebrew.

Kerem – This Hebrew name means vineyard, which erupt into delicate sprays of grape plant flowers each spring.

Lilach – This girls’ name is the same as the Hebrew name for the fragrant lilac flower.

Lotem – This Hebrew name refers to the flowering cistus plant, which thrives in the rocky landscape of the Mediterranean and features delicate, fragrant flowers.

Netta – This Hebrew name means a sapling or newly sprouting plant.

Nitzah – This Hebrew name means bud or blossom.

Nofar – This modern Hebrew name means water lily.

Nurit – This popular Israeli name means buttercup in Hebrew.

Raizel – This classic Jewish name is a diminutive of rose in Yiddish.  Variations include Raiza and Raize.

Rakefet – This is the Hebrew name of the cyclamen plant, a type of small plant with delicate, richly scented flowers.

Rotem – This modern Hebrew girls’ name refers to the Rotema plant, sometimes known as Jerusalem thorn; it is a large shrub which features long, delicate branches filled with magnificent bunches of yellow flowers.

Sachlav – This name means orchid in Hebrew.

Shaked – This Hebrew name means almond and evokes the delicate, fragrant pink and white blossoms of almond trees in the spring.

Shikma – This popular Hebrew girls’ name means sycamore tree.  Sycamores bud into dense clusters of tiny flowers in the Spring.

Shoshana – This popular Hebrew name referred to lilies in ancient Hebrew; today, it is often used to refer to roses or to flowers more generally.

Sigal – This popular modern Hebrew name means violet.

Smadar – This Hebrew name means bud or blossom and can refer to the first floral signs of Spring.

Tamar – This classic Jewish name means date palm tree; mature date palms blossom into beautiful sprays of tiny, delicate flowers.

Tzuf – This is the Hebrew word for nectar.

Vered – This Hebrew name means rose.

Yasmin – This name means jasmine in Hebrew.

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