Given name
Bezalel
“in the shadow of God”
Bezalel is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew.
Original Hebrewבצלאל
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Bezalel means “in the shadow of God.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Bezalel appears in Ezra 10:30.
From biblical name research
Bezalel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 115
- 115 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #4,878 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +79%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,878 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bezalel’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Bezalel
- Bezalel SmotrichIsraeli far-right religious politician and lawyer (born 1980)born 1981
- Bezalel NarkissIsraeli art historian1926–2008
- Bezalel Ashkenazirabbi and Talmudic scholar (1520-1591)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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