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

amother

Ruby

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 10:37 am

syaem wrote:

I’m very surprised that in 12 pages of responses no one mentioned name Minna. Old shtetl Yiddish name.
other ones are Dusya and Musya. my grandmother A”H had friends with those names

I don't think Mina is uncommon! (My daughter is Mina) I see it all the time.
I don't think it's yiddish either. Spelled with a hey. No specific meaning that I know of though.

amother

Gladiolus

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 10:43 am

amother Magnolia wrote:

Really cruel to name it at all. These are Yiddish Shetl names, I think we can leave them there and stick to mainstream biblical names but that’s my opinion only.

While I agree that some names are cruel to give, (regardless of language) but I don't agree with the second part of your comment. Many of us do not look at our "Yiddish Shtetl" pasts as something to be ashamed of and/or erased and hidden. Rather, we are proud of our rich heritage and mesorah and want to honor our ancestors for their mesiras nefesh and holding on to their emunah and yiddishkeit.

amother

Ivory ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 10:44 am

amother Junglegreen wrote:

How about Zlaty. I think that is pretty uncommon

My sisters SIL is Zlaty and I know one other. It's so funny how people post x, y, and z is such an uncommon name! And I know a zlaty, 2 or 3 chemdas, 2 odelias, 4 frayda/fradel/fradees...it's very community specific!

Oh, and I'm not in willi or any other chasidish community!

amother

↑ Oxfordblue ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 10:47 am

I know a zlaty, yiddisel, chantzy, Chashi, vichna, Alta temma, genesha, kreindy, krasi, shloimtzy, masha, rikel, moraya, chasida

↑ kenz ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 10:49 am

amother Oxfordblue wrote:

I know a zlaty, yiddisel, chantzy, Chashi, vichna, Alta temma, genesha, kreindy, krasi, shloimtzy, masha, rikel, moraya, chasida

Most of these are really not uncommon names in Brooklyn.

amother

Puce ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:19 am

Nobody mentioned -
Baba Zaida
Girl first name and family last name

amother

↑ Oxfordblue

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:27 am

amother Puce wrote:

Nobody mentioned -
Baba Zaida
Girl first name and family last name

I know a bubba

amother

Skyblue ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:36 am

DH went to yeshiva with a very normal guy named Shalom. The first time he got called up for an aliyah, DH found out that his full name is actually a complete passuk:
פלא יועץ אל גיבור אביעד שר שלום

amother

↑ DarkKhaki ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:37 am

BH Yom Yom wrote:

Bruriah (although I wonder of that will become more common if BJJ alumni start to name their newborn daughters after Rebbetzin David a”h)

I know at least 3

↑ kenz

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:37 am

amother Puce wrote:

Nobody mentioned -
Baba Zaida
Girl first name and family last name

Come on.

amother

↑ DarkKhaki ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:39 am

I know a family that has a Bilha and a Zilpa - it's their second name and I think they're called by their first name. Actually twins.

amother

↑ Lightyellow ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:41 am

amother Skyblue wrote:

I wouldn't consider Shalom an uncommon name at all. Very common in Chabad after the Rebbe Rashab, Shalom Dov Ber, but also common otherwise.

amother

↑ Skyblue ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:48 am

amother Lightyellow wrote:

I wouldn't consider Shalom an uncommon name at all. Very common in Chabad after the Rebbe Rashab, Shalom Dov Ber, but also common otherwise.

Shalom isn't uncommon. The full possuk is! It's actually a real name of someone in Tanach.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:50 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.

Someone else listed a name which one of my kids has. It is a name from Tanach and unusual, but we know others.

The point wasn't to disrespect anyone's names, I'm genuinely curious about uncommon names, I am really enjoying hearing the different ones!

amother

↑ Puce

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:53 am

...two I've my uncommon children's names,have not been,mentioned. ... they're either so accepted already that not unusual anymore or nobody here knows us Smile

↑ Bnei Berak 10

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:56 am

amother Skyblue wrote:

Totally normal name in Israel, even for non-religious circles

amother

↑ Brickred ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 11:59 am

Does anyone know a Manoach? As in the father of Shimshon? Always liked that name but never had the guts to use it. Also, Shimshon's mother (who was a bigger tzaddekes than Manoach) was named Hitzlallafonit.