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

amother

↑ Latte ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:07 pm

amother Peru wrote:

It doesnt out you if you just write "I know a --"
You can be their neighbor, teacher, friend etc. And the world is so big there might just (probably will) be another person with that name.
Otherwise your post just sounds like:
"I know the most uncommon name but im not telling nah nah nah..." I dont get it

Being that I have never heard of anyone with the same name as this person except the relative I named for (no one else named for them yet), it would actually out me. And the child isn't in school yet so teachers or friends.

amother

↑ Outerspace ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:11 pm

amother Latte wrote:

Yes but you do know that you have family- siblings and cousins that know of this name, right?
And some neighbors
Friends...

amother

↑ Dustypink

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:12 pm

amother Magnolia wrote:

I didn’t mean it’s something to be ashamed of. I just think mesotah wise we should stick to biblical names.

It’s not just about Shtetl, I know Syrians who are called Jamila or Reina. Personally, I stick to biblical names, because that’s the true Mama Loshon. Not Yiddish or Arabic. But that’s my unpopular opinion.

I'm a Rayna-its yiddish for pure.

amother

↑ DarkKhaki ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:21 pm

Reality wrote:

Shabbos Kestenbaum has been in the news a lot lately.

Shabbos, Yom Tov, Pesach - question is why no one names their kids Shavuos or Sukkos?

↑ Reality

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:28 pm

amother DarkKhaki wrote:

Shabbos, Yom Tov, Pesach - question is why no one names their kids Shavuos or Sukkos?

Yom Tov and Pesach are considered "normal" names. Why? I don't know but they don't belong on this thread.

↑ Busybee5 ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:28 pm

amother Celeste wrote:

I don't think Bruria is so uncommon. I can think of 4 I know off the top of my head. It's actually one of my favorite names.
To the poster who wants to name Manoach - I don't know anyone with that name, possibly because according to most meforshim I think Shimshon's mother was a big tzadeikes but his father was a bit of an am ha'aretz.

Tzippa
Manuela
Ohr

Oh yes and I know a Bruria. Didn't think of it but it's very unusual.

↑ Busybee5 ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:30 pm

amother Dahlia wrote:

My family has the name finkel but it's used as a second name

Are you related to Harav Nosson Zvi Finkel? His granddaughter was in sem with me.

Ruchel ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:30 pm

Combos for sure!
If you mean only one name, many here aren't so rare
Kreincha crown
Tuna is Fortuna
Reina - ashki is pure, sefi is queen
Jamila beautiful
Use Behind the name
If you love Ashkenazi name, the Beider!!

amother

Emerald

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:30 pm

I know a Davida and an Aharona. I also met a Mazal Tov (apparently it's a more common name in Argentina?) and a Menorah (she was from the Netherlands and went by Noor).

↑ Busybee5

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:31 pm

amother Ivory wrote:

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!

I have a cousin called Zlaty. They're chassidish.

amother

↑ Magnolia

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:32 pm

amother Dustypink wrote:

I'm a Rayna-its yiddish for pure.

I love Reina. I never knew about the Yiddish aspect! Always thought it was Spanish

https://www.thebump.com/b/reina-baby-name# looks like it’s both and Japanese!

Comptroller ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:52 pm

Busybee5 wrote:

Oh yes and I know a Bruria. Didn't think of it but it's very unusual.

I know three women named Berouria or Bruria. One sefardi, two ashkenasi, one in her eighties, one in her sixties, one about 30.

↑ Comptroller ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:53 pm

Busybee5 wrote:

I have a cousin called Zlaty. They're chassidish.

Zlata is Golda.

↑ Comptroller

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 2:57 pm

How about the good old Kalonymus / Klaunimus - any yekkes here?

amother

↑ Grape ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 3:28 pm

Busybee5 wrote:

Are you related to Harav Nosson Zvi Finkel? His granddaughter was in sem with me.

I’m pretty sure she meant it’s a first name.
Rav Nosson Zvi’s last name was Finkel.
I can’t tell if you’re genuinely asking or joking.
Finkel and Finkelstein are fairly common Ashkenaz Jewish family names.
Finkel as a girls first name is uncommon. I know one. It means spark in Yiddish. Shalhevet or Orit would make a pretty good switch if someone’s naming after.

amother

↑ Firethorn ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 3:48 pm

I used to have a neighbor named Akiva Eiger.
That's his first name.

↑ OOTBubby ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 3:52 pm

amother Dahlia wrote:

My family has the name finkel but it's used as a second name

An anscestor of ours was called Finkel.

↑ mommyla

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 3:56 pm

amother Latte wrote:

So you are the only person in the world who has ever met this person or heard their name?? Scratching Head

Now this is a name I’ve gotta hear!