Names in Hebrew

Jayden in Hebrew

Written

ג׳יידן

With the vowels

גֵ׳יידֶן

Read from right to left.

Letter by letter

  1. גֵ׳j
  2. ייey
  3. דֶde
  4. ןn

Why these letters

Hebrew has no j sound: it is written ג with an apostrophe, ג׳. The ay / ey sound is written with two yods, יי. At the end of a word נ takes its final shape, ן.

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