How to write your name in Hebrew

The first Hebrew most people want to write is not “peace.” It is their name, on a notebook or a gift. Fair. Also a trap: if you copy D-A-V-I-D with Hebrew-looking doodles, you have not written David. You have written an English word in a costume.

The box at the top of this page — or the standalone tool at /name — uses a small list of common names, then a sound-to-letter guess. Treat the guess as a tracing list, not a passport.

Use Hebrew letters, from the right

David in Hebrew is דוד — dalet, vav, dalet. Three shapes. Start on the right.

Sarah is שרה. Rachel is רחל. Those are usual spellings, not a decoder ring for every English nickname.

How to practise the letters in it

Do not write the whole name fifty times while the shapes are still mush. Take the first letter. Trace it. Then the next. A name is a short unit: three to six traces, not a poster.

When a letter sits at the end of the name, it may need a final form (ך ם ן ף ץ). The tool will pick those when it can. Why finals exist.

After the name

If the name was the hook, the alphabet is still the path. How to write Hebrew letters, or get a starting unit — people who already read can skip the alphabet unit and start with words.