Entry № 1391 · Hebrew origin

Beruriah Beruriah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ beh-ROO-ree-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Talmudic scholar; chosen by God"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Aramaic)

A name that means "talmudic scholar; chosen by god".

Beruriah is the Hebrew/Aramaic name from the 2nd-century Talmudic scholar — the only woman whose legal opinions are recorded in the Talmud. Wife of Rabbi Meir, daughter of Rabbi Hananiah.

Beruriah is rare but iconic in religious Jewish families.

The Talmudic scholar. The Talmud's only female sage.

The name in its native script.

בְּרוּרְיָה
Transliteration
Brūryāh
Pronunciation
/ bəˈruː.ri.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Beruriah stands.

Beruriah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Beruriahs before her.

Real people
Beruriah
Talmudic scholar.
2nd c. CE
In fiction
Beruriah
Common in religious Jewish fiction.

Names connected to Beruriah.

The number behind Beruriah.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Beruriah reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.