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We're bez'h having a girl soon and planning on making aliya in the next couple of years. What are some good israeli girls names?
these were suggested to use but dont know how common/modern they are among dati-leumi/torani crowd:
zimra
ora
nesya
maya
Yael
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| Posted: Sun, May 16 2010, 12:36 am Post subject: re: Israeli Girl Names |
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In 2006, the most popular girls’ names were: Noa, Shira, Maya, Yael, Tamar, Sarah, Roni, Agam, Michal, and Adi.
Techelet (the color of the sky), Raviv (raindrop), Or-el (G-d’s ligh) Li-yah (G-d is mine?), Yarden and Arbel (a Mt. in the North)
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| Posted: Sun, May 16 2010, 12:56 am Post subject: Re: Israeli Girl Names |
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| amother wrote: | We're bez'h having a girl soon and planning on making aliya in the next couple of years. What are some good israeli girls names?
these were suggested to use but dont know how common/modern they are among dati-leumi/torani crowd:
zimra
ora
nesya
maya
Yael
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Last two are classics that are still popular today. Ora and Nesya are also nice, though not as modern.
It would be cruel to give a girl the name Zimra today, it sounds like the kind of name she would be teased over.
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| Posted: Sun, May 16 2010, 3:47 am Post subject: Re: Israeli Girl Names |
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| amother wrote: | We're bez'h having a girl soon and planning on making aliya in the next couple of years. What are some good israeli girls names?
these were suggested to use but dont know how common/modern they are among dati-leumi/torani crowd:
zimra DON'T
ora ALWAYS PRETTY
nesya DON'T
maya NOT SO RELIGIOUS.
Yael ALWAYS PRETTY
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Are the other names you like? Do you have to worry about them being/not being "approved by the Rabbi" ? (there was controversy regarding the name Shira...).
Hila
No'a
Na'ama
Adi
Ayala
Ma'ayan
Sarit
Bat El
Leeya
Hodaya
Tiferet
Tamar
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Yael is one of those very few names that is popular among all circles - there are almost no other names like this (maybe Tamar and Shira [no comment about Shira  ]) No'a can just about squeeze into chareidi circles.
Maya is not a name used in more religious communities - maybe DL-lite (who often use modern Israeli names), but not chareidi or chardal.
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| Quote: | | maya NOT SO RELIGIOUS. |
Actually I know 2 Maya's that spell their name Mem Yud Hayh-the meaning is me-Hashem-from Hashem.
After the yom Kippur war alot of the Israelis gave that name which stands Milchemet Yom Hakipurim.
Personally, I like the Israeli names Yael, Hila, Hadar.
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| Posted: Sun, May 16 2010, 4:43 am Post subject: re: Israeli Girl Names |
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love ashira.
hodiya, anael (might be french), noa
less religious but very pretty:
shani, maayan,
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| amother wrote: | love ashira.
hodiya, anael (might be french), noa
less religious but very pretty:
shani, maayan, | Do you love Ashira in Israel? I have heard Americans use it but I haven't heard it here. Reminds me too much of matza ashira for me to think of it as a name.
Tehilla is a very well-worn and used name.
Odelia
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| Posted: Sun, May 16 2010, 6:16 am Post subject: Re: re: Israeli Girl Names |
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| Tamiri wrote: | | amother wrote: | love ashira.
hodiya, anael (might be french), noa
less religious but very pretty:
shani, maayan, | Do you love Ashira in Israel? I have heard Americans use it but I haven't heard it here. Reminds me too much of matza ashira for me to think of it as a name.
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I agree with Tamiri. This is like Atara - an "Israeli" name people keep mentioning here that no one in Israel uses.
It reminds me of Aviva and Ilana - I have met very, very few Israeli born Avivas (and they are probably about 60) and I don't think I ever met an Israeli Ilana - but I know loads of Avivas and Ilanas from frum families in England, the US and Canada who thought they were giving an "Israeli" name.
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| Posted: Sun, May 16 2010, 6:33 am Post subject: Re: re: Israeli Girl Names |
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| shalhevet wrote: | | Tamiri wrote: | | amother wrote: | love ashira.
hodiya, anael (might be french), noa
less religious but very pretty:
shani, maayan, | Do you love Ashira in Israel? I have heard Americans use it but I haven't heard it here. Reminds me too much of matza ashira for me to think of it as a name.
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I agree with Tamiri. This is like Atara - an "Israeli" name people keep mentioning here that no one in Israel uses.
It reminds me of Aviva and Ilana - I have met very, very few Israeli born Avivas (and they are probably about 60) and I don't think I ever met an Israeli Ilana - but I know loads of Avivas and Ilanas from frum families in England, the US and Canada who thought they were giving an "Israeli" name. | My husband's grandmother was Atara but I don't know where she got the name, whether it was in Poland or here in Israel. Luckily, I never had to deal with it. I have a friend who has been in Israel since she was 9 or so, married to 100% Israeli and her daughter is Atara. I never thought about the other meaning, besides the decoration for a Sefer Torah before Imamother.
There are MILLIONS of Avivas and Ilanas here, but they are "older". I don't think anyone uses those names anymore but they were all over when I was growing up here. Now, it's Avivit and Ilanit. That reminds me of another name: Rotem. Row Them. Tow Them. Whatever.
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| Posted: Sun, May 16 2010, 7:37 am Post subject: re: Israeli Girl Names |
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The kids with "modern" names in my dd's gan have names like: Shira, Shirel, Shanael, Ilanit, Orna, Techia, Anael, Ron, Adel, Shalva, Noa, Maayan, Odelia, Dan, Odaya...
Israeli Ilana: the dd of Chana Rovina.
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Also Eliya (boy or girl) and Avia (boy or girl) known as AC/DC 
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curious- what's the controversy over the name shira?
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| Tamiri wrote: | | amother wrote: | love ashira.
hodiya, anael (might be french), noa
less religious but very pretty:
shani, maayan, | Do you love Ashira in Israel? I have heard Americans use it but I haven't heard it here. Reminds me too much of matza ashira for me to think of it as a name.
Tehilla is a very well-worn and used name.
Odelia
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Odelia - not modern at all. Never heard of someone called Ashira here in Israel.
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| I have a Kinneret, Hodaya, and Elianna
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| Tamiri wrote: | | amother wrote: | love ashira.
hodiya, anael (might be french), noa
less religious but very pretty:
shani, maayan, | Do you love Ashira in Israel? I have heard Americans use it but I haven't heard it here. Reminds me too much of matza ashira for me to think of it as a name.
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I have two friends in Israel- one a native born Israeli - who named their daughters Ashira.
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| It always surprises me when I read about how pouplar Noa is because it is my middle name and I was teased mercilessly over it in school- _____ Noa built a tevah. Maybe that doesn't sound so bad to adults but for a little girl being called a boy is not fun.
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I don't think I ever met an Israeli Ilana |
Dh's cousin - Israeli born, kibbutz raised - is Ilana. It's a name that is very dated though - very 1950's-1960's, back when "nature" names were all the rage.
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| MommyZ wrote: | | It always surprises me when I read about how pouplar Noa is because it is my middle name and I was teased mercilessly over it in school- _____ Noa built a tevah. Maybe that doesn't sound so bad to adults but for a little girl being called a boy is not fun. |
I wouldn't call that mercilessly... but still, Noa and Noach is not the same name anyway.
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