Meirav is from the Hebrew מֵרַב (Mērav — abundance, increase, multitude). A modern American baby name in the broader Hebrew-biblical heritage aesthetic. Meirav is one of the foundational Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Jewish heritage. The foundational name connects to foundational Merab / Meirav — foundational eldest daughter of foundational King Saul (foundational first King of Israel c. 1050-1010 BCE + foundational tribe of Benjamin) + foundational central figure in foundational 1 Samuel 14:49 + 18:17-19 + foundational originally promised to foundational David foundational future king of Israel + foundational instead married to foundational Adriel the Meholathite + foundational mother of foundational five sons (handed over to Gibeonites 2 Samuel 21:8) + foundational sister of foundational Michal (foundational David's first wife) + foundational Jonathan (David's beloved friend) + foundational central to foundational Saul-David narrative + foundational Israelite monarchy heritage + foundational ~1,200 BCE Iron Age Israelite kingdom. Foundational Hebrew feminine name reflecting biblical foundational heritage.
Featured throughout Hebrew heritage.
Meirav 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meirav reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.