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

amother

↑ Watermelon ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 5:35 pm

amother Wine wrote:

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

Paya is a family name for us.

amother

Seashell ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 5:51 pm

amother Oak wrote:

I have a son named pesachya and it’s an Aramaic name, another name for mordechai hatzadik in the gemara

Same. I also have a son Psachya and knew the source from the Gemara. I thought maybe I had posted this till I saw the spelling. All the family spells it as you do except for me. I spell it Psachya.

It’s a family name. There’s a BIL and lots of nephews (not married) with this name (though most added another name).

There are two chabad families who have this name.

amother

↑ Seashell

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:18 pm

amother Watermelon wrote:

Paya is a family name for us.

Related?
Chabad?

amother

Seablue

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:19 pm

amother Gardenia wrote:

I was in school with a girl named priva. Never heard it since.
Also met a Pirchi which I think is Pircha. In English it would translate to Flora.
I think they're both beautiful.
When I taught in a school with some Israeli families, there was a Bat Chen and a Moriah which were unusual to me but also very pretty.

My daughter's name is Priva. It was my grandmother's name.
Now I'm totally outing myself, but my husband's name is Elyakim.
We are cool with unusual names!

amother

Banana

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:20 pm

amother Skyblue wrote:

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

This is the name of someone in Tanach, I forget who. It's the longest name in Tanach. Interesting bit of trivia.

amother

Oldlace

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:24 pm

amother DarkKhaki wrote:

The Tanis I know are short for Netanel

The Tani I know is girl, short for Sultana

amother

↑ Watermelon ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:26 pm

amother Seashell wrote:

Related?
Chabad?

Not Chabad, but definitely from Russia. I have a feeling it's a Russian name, but you never know! Maybe we will find cousins!

amother

↑ Mintgreen

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:27 pm

I know a boy named Emmet/אמת, which sort of works as an English name as well as a Hebrew one.

And his brother is Job/איוב.

Has anyone ever met a Kohelet? I have not.

My kids have conventional names, but I respect people who can pull off giving uncommon names.

amother

↑ Lightyellow ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:28 pm

theoneandonly wrote:

I once met a Chasah (lettuce in Hebrew)

I know a Chasya

amother

Offwhite

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:32 pm

There's a male Lapidos Chlavna in our family tree. I have a relative named that, but he goes by his English name, and I have a girl relative who was given it as a middle Hebrew name and goes by an English name.

A female relative is Yospa. Doesn't go by it.

My daughter's middle name is Vichna. Not the most uncommon (especially in Bais Yaakov of BP circles because of Rebbitzen Kaplan AH), but she's actually named after our relative who wasn't Rebbitzen Kaplan. DD basically goes by her first name, but she's well aware of her full name.

amother

Amethyst

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:44 pm

amother Seablue wrote:

My daughter's name is Priva. It was my grandmother's name.
Now I'm totally outing myself, but my husband's name is Elyakim.
We are cool with unusual names!

My MIL is Priva and I know another one too

amother

↑ Outerspace ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:48 pm

amother Lightyellow wrote:

I know a Chasya

I wouldn't call this an uncommon name

amother

↑ Outerspace ↓

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:49 pm

I know a male Even (stone)
And a female Gela

amother

Dill

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:54 pm

Margulies (girls name) nickname is guli
Shartza known as shatzi

amother

↑ Forsythia

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 6:56 pm

amother Dill wrote:

Margulies (girls name) nickname is guli
Shartza known as shatzi

Margulis is the chassidish version of margalit

up high

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:01 pm

Girl names I know:

Finkel
Yichya
Hitzel
Gitzya
Mintza
Montza
Glickel
Faytcha
Frimtcha
Minda

amother

↑ Steelblue

Tue, Apr 09 2024, 7:08 pm

theoneandonly wrote:

I once met a Chasah (lettuce in Hebrew)

Yes I knew someone by this name too.