Heard of these girls names??

Posted: Mon, Aug 27 2007, 7:53 am Post subject: heard of these girls names??

anyone heard of these girls names??

Geula
Segula
Adar

why in the world would people give such names??

Posted: Mon, Aug 27 2007, 7:55 am Post subject: re: heard of these girls names??

geula I have heard... after the concept of redemption

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I know 2 Geula's and actually never thought of it to be a rare name.
Never heard a Segula, But I've met an Adar.

And to answer your question with another one, why in the world would someone give the name Miriam Nechama??? I don't mean to be rude, but these are names and they have deep meanings, just because your ears aren't used to hearing them doesn't make them any weirder than your name.

Posted: Mon, Aug 27 2007, 8:33 am Post subject: re: heard of these girls names??

greentiger youre right but out of all of them I find adar the strangest... what and where does it comefrom. and to ans your other question... go ask me mom why she named me that.... well you can't so it's miriam is after an aunt and nechama is shabbos nachamu. actualy there are plenty miriam nechama's around. though sometimes I do feel like it's too contrast ie one bitter and one comfort. oh well that's who I am and that's who I will be!!

Posted: Mon, Aug 27 2007, 8:52 am Post subject:

I've heard of segula and adar but not of geula

have u heard of:

halel
hodaya
ayelet
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shlumz - I've heard of all of those

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Adar is a hebrew month.

I just find it really weird how there are about 10 names (or so it seems) that people use, and when someone tries anything a little bit different they are looked at strangely even if the name has a meaning and a reason.

Look in the tanach. Where do all our names that we use come from? There is always a reason for the parent giving the name based on the specific situation they were in at the time the child was born. Gershom -ger hayiti sham, Binyamin - ben yimini, Dan - Danani Elokim, I could keep going and going, but the point is the parents saw each child as having a new unique mission in life and gave them their names based on that, but nowadays when anyone tries to be a bit original, people make faces. For eg, my sister recently named her kid Levi, she was asked who he was named after and she said Levi ben Yaakov, and people were shocked. It seems all we ever do is name our kids after great uncles and other far off relatives without actually giving a thought to the actual name past the sound of it.

Posted: Mon, Aug 27 2007, 9:49 am Post subject:

maybe she was comparing name to "april" ... and said why not "adar" Drunken Smile

... seems unique ... maybe I'll change my name ... Mr. Green

I love names that are a little different.... Smile

...OP, the ones you posted are actually pretty mainstream-at least among the people I know, especially Israelis and BT's.
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Dd has an Adar in her class.

Geula is not new at all - I once had a teacher who told us she was called Geula b/c she was the first baby born in the family after the Shoah. And I know another Geula in her thirties.

Hodaya was the name a few years ago in Israel amongst more modern Chareidi and also MO. I know loads - my going up to 3rd grade dd has about 3 or 4 in her class. Ayelet is very popular amongst MO, and also used with more modern chareidi.

Greentiger - sorry, but I don't agree. The names given in Tanach by the avos and imahos were given with n'vua (prophecy). Then they did invent names, but today we have the principle of the Jewish people being redeemed in the zechus (merit) of lo shinu shemosam (they didn't change their names). Even if those names are pretty Hebrew ones. Ayelet and Ayala were used for hundreds of years (usually as Hinda) so I don't think that would be called changing names. I have heard Rav Mutzafi say that it is the name of the Shechina and that Ayala is a very good name to use.

here's another I just heard...

haleluya.

btw what are the typical morden snazzy israeli girl names?? bil wants a name for his newborn girl and has no ideas.

he wants things like talia, ayala tamar etc. what else??

Geula is common among North Africans. They also use Gemara, Tikuna, Kochava, Pracha, Precha, Pedut, Rachma, Khamsa, and the very exotic Aisha, Aziza, Tzalcha, Tita, Messodi/Messuda... Laughing

I can find others if anyone is looking for very unusual names Razz

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No one would bat an eyelash at those names, in Israel. Are you sure it's Adar and not Hadar? Adar is also the name of a tree, not only a month. I think that Adar is in the Maple family.
In Israel: Bat Ami, Aderet, Tehilla, Tiferet, Hodaya... so many new and meaningful names out there. Hallelya always gets me, doesn't roll off the tongue so easily.

Posted: Mon, Aug 27 2007, 1:13 pm Post subject: re: heard of these girls names??

Tehilla is rather old. It was used as Tilla in Poland, Russia...

[quote="Ruchel"]Tehilla is rather old. It was used as Tilla in Poland, Russia...[/quote]

Tehilla, if I am not mistaken, was used as one of the characters in a Shai Agnon story. I don't know what Tilla means, if anything, but Tehilla means glory. I knew one girl with that name growing up about 30 years ago in Israel, now it's quite commonplace.
Tchiya (rebirth) hard to pronounce with an English/U.S. tongue
Eliana (not new, more common in the U.S. than Israel)
Noa (not new at all)
Naama
Chen
Yafit (twist on Yaffa?)
Sarit
Yifat
Moriah

So many girl's names, and I have 5 boys.... :roll:

Posted: Mon, Aug 27 2007, 1:47 pm Post subject: re: heard of these girls names??

Tilla is a Yiddish shortening of Tehilla.

Yafit is like "little Yaffa". I have a cousin named Yaffit, for a Shayndel (little Shayna).

Have you noticed people get more creative for girls? Often for boys they stick to Hebrew classics, but girls get Yiddish, Ladino, secular-who-integrated-Jewish-language names, creative spellings and it's not a new thing!

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I know of pple named geula, not adar, but aderet, hodaya & hallel, a bunch of ayelet's.
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I never thought of Geula as an unusual name. I'm 35yrs old and there were a number of girls older than me in school that had that name.
Ayalah and Ayelet are fairly common here as well (and I'm from Brooklyn, not Eretz Yisroel).
There was a girl named Sarit (and another named Saritte!) in my class in elementary school. Sarit had sisters named Yifat, Rinat and Liat. I'm not sure where her parents were from, but those names all have an Israeli sound to them.
My daughter has a Tehillah in her class (they are nearly 11 yrs old.

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I think they're nice names.