S/O what's the most uncommon name you know personally?

mudpies ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:13 am

I know a girl named Amira Hallel. She was born on Sukkos. It's a beautiful name, though not common.
I know a Michla and a Machla, Rashi, Reicha, Rechel.
Chanita
Ayson
A man named Yocheved (I don't know him personally but someone I know met him)
Alexandra
Osna
I don't think any of them are weird, just not common.

↑ mudpies ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:15 am

And I saw mentioned on the other thread - I actually do know someone named Fradchen. It's her second name, she doesn't go by it, but it's a real name.

amother

↑ Chicory ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:20 am

To answer OP:

In a DL community in Israel you hear a lotnof unusual names. The ones I didn't love I forgot. One that I heard, exactly once, and loved is

שבתיה Shivtiya, which I assume means "Gd returned me / I returned to HaShem".

I'd consider it for a daughter.

amother

Indigo

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:35 am

My name is on this list.-Temy
I love my name. Although people have asked me what’s my Jewish name before. I’m like this is it.
No one knows how to spell it in Hebrew (it’s Yiddish)

And I know people with almost all of the names in this thread. Barring a few.

bsy ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:41 am

amother White wrote:

What do they call the poor child?
I know a Mamala and a Manya

This was the original name. She passed away and wrote in her tzava'ah not to name after her. People still did but added names, like malka shartza babche etc.

amother

DarkCyan

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:54 am

amother Narcissus wrote:

Fali-girls name

This is a name in my family and there are keh many little girls named fala or fali.
Don't know if I'll give it though.

amother

↑ Fern

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:03 am

amother Jetblack wrote:

Anyone on here actually have any of these names or have named their children this?

Im sorry if yes.

I dont find this thread so respectful.

As I wrote earlier in this thread my name is mentioned here. I’m sure it’s me because there’s no way there is anyone else with that exact name.
I’m just curious who on here knows me. Laugh

Btw quite a few names here may be unusual in certain areas of the world but are pretty common in Israel. I bet a lot of it is location/community dependent.

Golde ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:08 am

It's funny, I've read through the whole thread now. Some of the names mentioned are so common in my circles that I keep thinking "wow how can ANYONE think that's uncommon?!"
Others are more like "wow can you actually be called that?"

Anyway I have met a couple of (non Jewish) people called Hashem.
And a (non Jewish) boy called Nuh.

↑ Golde

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:13 am

amother Ginger wrote:

Given names!

Wow I also know a Cookie but for her it's a nickname for Kochavit. Very cute I think.

amother

Moccasin

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:17 am

A relative of mine named one child yechimelech and another brother Moshiach

When they came in for a simcha, we said Moshiach is in America…😂

amother

Latte ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:24 am

Every time this kind of thread comes up I wait for someone to say my daughter's name, but no one ever has - she may be the only one in the world! It's an old Yiddish name that was more common back in the shtetl. Not saying it here because it'll out me immediately.

On a side note, so many names that are mentioned here are super common in my community so it's really community dependent. I'd say there's less than 10 that I've never actually heard of so I'm curious about the circles people travel in to think them so unusual. I love unusual names!! So many of them are so beautiful.

amother

↑ Babyblue

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:26 am

Golde wrote:

We had a non Jewish client with the name Adonai. Like Hashem's name. We didn't know how to call him. It was so strange. Lol

amother

↑ Burlywood

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:27 am

To those that won’t say their names - you’re anonymous. How does that out you?
I imagine some people would know who I am in real life when they see my names I posted of my kids, but it still doesn’t give away anything else or my user name if I post anonymously.

amother

↑ Latte ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:29 am

amother Burlywood wrote:

It outs that I'm on here, which for various technical reasons isn't something I want made public.

Also the name I have in mind is probably the only one in the world with that name today, so, privacy for them too.

↑ mudpies ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:34 am

My father was at a bris where they named the baby Yagel Yaakov Yismach Yisroel.
The name on here I can't get over is Reish Lakish. Never met anyone named that! Most of the others I've heard of or know personally.

amother

↑ Midnight

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:34 am

I remembered some more
I know a Pia, my mother knew a Binyan Olam growing up (mentor made his parents change his name at some point)

Edited to add I see someone just posted pia above

↑ bsy ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:37 am

amother Wine wrote:

10 pages in and nobody mentioned Pia, pronounced pie uh.

I know one

amother

↑ Oak ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 8:07 am

kenz wrote:

I don’t think Pesachya is so uncommon. Or Elkanah.

That’s what I was saying. OP listed it as an uncommon name. I was saying it’s not that uncommon