The meanings of the names are as follows:

Genesis - Latin from Geek – be produced, to become, birth, origin (creation of the world)

Exodus - Latin from Geek - way, going out (the going out of the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land)

Leviticus - Latin from Hebrew - Levi (the tribe of Levi)

Numbers - numbers (the census of the Israelites after the Exodus from Egypt)

Deuteronomy – Latin from Greek - later, second (the second statement of the Mosaic Law)

The five books together are called Pentateuch – from Latin and Greek - book, scroll, case book or Torah (from Hebrew teaching, or law).