Mehitabel as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mehitabel

What is the meaning of the name Mehitabel ?

The baby name Mehitabel is a Female name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced meh-HIT-uh-bel,/məˌhɪtəˈbɛl/.

Mehitabel is Hebrew in Origin.

Mehitabel is the Anglicized form of the Biblical Hebrew name Mehetabel/Mehetavel, built from the verb heitiv “to do good” and the theophoric element El “God.” It is commonly interpreted as “God does good,” “favored by God,” or “benefited by God.” The name appears in the Hebrew Bible for a woman in Edom’s royal line (Genesis 36:39) and for an ancestor mentioned in Nehemiah 6:10, giving it deep scriptural roots.

In English, Mehitabel (and the widespread New England spelling Mehitable/Mehetable) flourished among 17th-18th-century Puritans, who favored Old Testament names with moral resonance, then faded in the 19th century. A light literary afterglow came via Don Marquis’s comic “archy and mehitabel” poems (1916-30), where Mehitabel is a free-spirited cat. Documented variants include Mehetabel, Mehitable, Mehetable, Mehitabelle, and the Hebrew Mehetavel; diminutives and pet forms include Hetty/Hetta, Hitty, Mettie, and Belle.

⚙ Mehitabel is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Mehitabel appears only 2 times in total — found in 2 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.