What are the most unusual first names in your family tree?

chanchy123

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:05 am

amother [ Burlywood ] wrote:

clairel.
I have a neighbor named Chanchy and another neighbor named Kreinchy. (my boys dont stop teasing them Sad

And here I thought I was unique 😉, my user name is after a nickname some of my siblings used for me when we younger.

amother

Coffee ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:13 am

Some names in my extended family

Tuna (as a second name)
Rhodya
Falik

amother

Cobalt ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:34 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

I figured I would also do mine!

Markel (anyone know what this name is short for?)
Lipman
Zorach (like זרח)
Dicha
Helman
Oyser
Yafet
Frymet

I gotta say I'm taken by surprise to see that name. It is the one name I was going to write, and was just scrolling down, reading 'till the end of the thread.

Jewish Geneology... there you go. We are not just a religion. WE ARE FAMILY!

turca

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:36 am

amother [ Coffee ] wrote:

Some names in my extended family

Tuna (as a second name)
Rhodya
Falik

Tuna/tunee is a nickname for Mazal/fortune

amother

Smokey ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:40 am

I'm anonymous bec this name will identity me. Paltiel. My great great grandfather was Paltiel. My uncle was Paltiel and now my little nephew bears this unique name.

↑ thunderstorm ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:40 am

amother [ Pearl ] wrote:

We have Pia which people are shocked we use but I legit think it is one of the nicest names out there. Plus a bunch of other unusual names are in our family tree.

I know a few Pias . It is a pretty and unique name.

amother

Wine

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:40 am

yo'ma wrote:

I know a Paul who is in his 70’s. His hebrew name is Aba. His kids call him Daddy. Smile

We have a few, but we know it’s their nicknames. No one was able to remember their actual name. They were young and killed in the camps.

Shaul-Saul-Paul

↑ thunderstorm ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:47 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

I figured I would also do mine!

Markel (anyone know what this name is short for?)
Lipman
Zorach (like זרח)
Dicha
Helman
Oyser
Yafet
Frymet

My great grandfather was Oizer . I guess that’s the same as Oyser. But in Russia , with the Yiddish they spoke back then, the cholam was pronounced as a Tzeirei. So he was known as “Eizer”

amother

↑ OP ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:51 am

amother [ Cobalt ] wrote:

No way! I’ve never heard of anyone else using that name. So cool. This ancestor of mine was from Lithuania. Was yours also?

And you’re so right about being a family. The connectedness of the Jewish people not only spiritually but historically and ethnically is such a beautiful, inspiring thing.

↑ thunderstorm

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:51 am

amother [ Cobalt ] wrote:

My former neighbor’s son was “Zurech” . You hear it often enough in Chasidish circles.

amother

↑ Coffee

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:52 am

turca wrote:

Tuna/tunee is a nickname for Mazal/fortune

Actually it's not in this case. She is named after someone who's name was Tuna.

I also know a girl named sasha and another one named Margalit

amother

Bisque ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:54 am

amother [ Pearl ] wrote:

We have Pia which people are shocked we use but I legit think it is one of the nicest names out there. Plus a bunch of other unusual names are in our family tree.

We might be related then.

Ema of 5

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:54 am

amother [ Silver ] wrote:

Lifsha
Yetta

I know one of each :-)

amother

↑ Cobalt ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:55 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Yes, Lithuania! Last name Hurwitz.
So curious, please lmk...

amother

↑ Bisque

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:00 am

amother [ Pearl ] wrote:

I'm not Bobov.
I'm Satmar.
Still your cousin?
Few families have this name.

So then deffinitely hi to you, dear family member.

Chana Miriam S

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:00 am

On my kibbutz in 1990 they had the best. No idea what they did to it but it’s good I never worked it out. I could eat bowl after bowl.

amother

↑ Smokey ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:01 am

thunderstorm wrote:

I know a few Pias . It is a pretty and unique name.

It's my middle name..and I've always hated it.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:03 am

amother [ Cobalt ] wrote:

Yes, Lithuania! Last name Hurwitz.
So curious, please lmk...

My ancestor’s last name was Schul and was from the town Ponevezh. But all Jews are ethnically related somewhere down the line, so even if we don’t share this ancestor we definitely do share some somewhere! Smile