Hevel as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hevel

What is the meaning of the name Hevel ?

The baby name Hevel is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced HEH-vel (Hebrew: [ˈhe.vel]; English approx. /ˈhɛvəl/).

Hevel is Hebrew in Origin.

Hevel (Hebrew הֶבֶל, hevel) is the Biblical Hebrew form of Abel, from the Semitic root h-b-l meaning “breath, vapor,” hence “fleetingness, vanity.” In Genesis he is the second son of Adam and Eve, whose brief life and unjust death poignantly echo the name’s sense of transience. The same word recurs in Ecclesiastes - hevel havalim, “vanity of vanities” - as a poetic image for life’s evanescence.

As a given name, Hevel is rare in Jewish and modern Israeli use, while the Hellenized/Latinized Abel spread widely in Christian Europe. Cross-linguistic variants include Abel (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish), Ábel (Hungarian), Abele (Italian), Abel/Ábel (Czech/Slovak), Avel (Russian/Church Slavonic, Авель), Habil (Arabic), and Habel (Ethiopic and occasional Germanic form). Possible nickname: Abe. Note that Czech Havel, though similar in form, is unrelated etymologically.

⚙ Hevel barely registers. There are only 6 recorded uses on record, spread over 4 countries.