The baby name Mehetabel is a Female name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced meh-HEH-tuh-bel.
Mehetabel is Hebrew in Origin.
The baby name Mehetabel is a Female name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced meh-HEH-tuh-bel.
Mehetabel is Hebrew in Origin.
Mehetabel is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin, built from the root y-t-b, “to be good/benefit,” plus El, “God.” It is commonly interpreted as “God does good,” “favored by God,” or “benefited by God.” The name appears in the Hebrew Bible: Mehetabel is named as the wife of Hadad (also called Hadar), king of Edom, daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Mezahab (Genesis 36:39; 1 Chronicles 1:50), and another bearer is mentioned ancestrally in Nehemiah 6:10.
In English, the name flourished in Puritan and Colonial New England, where Old Testament choices were prized, then waned by the 19th century. Spelling variants include Mehitable, Mehitabel, and Mehetable; short forms Hetty and Hitty occur in early records. While rare today, Mehetabel carries antique elegance and a literary echo through Don Marquis’s Archy and Mehitabel, which kept the Mehitabel spelling in the public imagination.
Mehetabel is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Mehetabel appears only 14 times in total — found in 8 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA | 0 | #474 | 1 | 14,421 | |
| PA | Girls | 0 | #518 | 1 | 9,861 |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #597 | 1 | 20,968 |
| SG | Girls | 0 | #632 | 1 | 18,916 |
| BO | Girls | 0 | #649 | 3 | 9,488 |
| NG | Girls | 0 | #824 | 3 | 15,093 |
| PE | Girls | 0 | #1,009 | 2 | 14,861 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #1,013 | 2 | 25,931 |
Mehetabel is popular in 8 countries — most recent births per country:
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