What's the longest Jewish name?

amother

↑ Garnet

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 3:55 pm

Ruchel wrote:

Haha, non Jewish aristocrat's don't count 😉

I know but some of those names could totally be someone’s Zayde from der heim.
I’m talking to you, schplenden-schlitter-fried-burstein-applebanger-horowitz-grumblemeyer-nürnburger-kalbsfleisch.

amother

Lemonlime

Mon, Jul 22 2024, 9:21 pm

Shneur Zalmen Yissochor Getzel Haleivi Rubashkin, is very common in the Rubashkin family.

amother

Pumpkin

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 12:05 am

Growing up, I knew of two boys with 4 names:
Tzemach Dovid Shraga Yair
and
Dovid Moshe Yisroel Meir

what a mouthful.

a2z ↓

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 1:14 am

amother Garnet wrote:

It should be against the law to do that to a child. Can you imagine when they read her ketuba under the chuppah?
It should be mandatory for parents to go through some kind of screening board before naming a child even though less than one out of a thousand would do such a thing.

Chasidim usually ask the rebbe

amother

Currant

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 1:40 am

amother Seashell wrote:

My friends granddaughter is called
Neshama Tehora sheyarda laolam be'erev Shabbat bein hashmashot

Your friend's granddaughter?
I believe that's r' Shlomo Carlebach's daughter's name.

amother

NeonYellow

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 2:07 am

a2z wrote:

Chasidim usually ask the rebbe

I know. It's a real shame as this preivilige was specifically given to parents.

↑ a2z

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 2:27 am

amother NeonYellow wrote:

I know. It's a real shame as this preivilige was specifically given to parents.

Huh?
The rebbi doesn't pick the name.
We do.

Ema of 5 ↓

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 3:00 am

amother Watermelon wrote:

Katznellenbogen is a real last name. Katznellenbogenstein (as in The Magic Yarmulka) I believe is invented.

Don't forget Shmuel Kunda's other long names, like Uncle Isadore (Yitzchak Isaac Meshulam Zusia ben Yosef (?) Aharon Dov Ber Hakohen Himmelstein)!

Yitzchak Issac meshulam vinshel ben Zusha Aaron dov bee hakohen himmelstein

amother

DarkMagenta

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 3:25 am

My brother has four names Ben 3 names. We always wish him to stay well, because I don't know if people will want to daven for such long names like when you spell out name by kif yid tes.

amother

Maroon

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 4:26 am

Reminds me of Tom Lehrer's "Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky"

↑ Ruchel ↓

Tue, Jul 23 2024, 9:53 am

amother DarkMagenta wrote:

My brother has four names Ben 3 names. We always wish him to stay well, because I don't know if people will want to daven for such long names like when you spell out name by kif yid tes.

people who love him will! French lists sometimes you see that

chavalesch

Mon, Jul 29 2024, 7:29 am

amother Babyblue wrote:

Anon for this because I've told friends IRL. I SERIOUSLY considered naming my baby Sar Shalom even though it's not our minhag/mesorah at all. Felt a very strong pull to the name Shalom in my 9th month, named him Shalom Dov Ber in the end.

Also, my friends husband is friends with the long-shalom-name guy.

All my kids have 2 names, a few have three. Hope this helps your question.

Whose minhag is it to name sar shalom?

amother

↑ Babyblue ↓

Mon, Jul 29 2024, 8:39 am

chavalesch wrote:

Whose minhag is it to name sar shalom?

Harav Sar Shalom Sharabi was from Yemen, and there was also the first Belzer Rebbe the Sar Shalom. We are not teimani or belzers.

amother

DarkRed

Mon, Jul 29 2024, 8:52 am

a2z wrote:

Chasidim usually ask the rebbe

Some Chassidim ask the Rebbe .

amother

Leaf

Mon, Jul 29 2024, 9:20 am

amother DarkRed wrote:

Some Chassidim ask the Rebbe .

We're Chassidish,
We usually decide on a name or 2 ,then have our Rebbe tell us which one / give a Bracha on the name.
So it still stays pretty much the parents' choice.
Most Chassidim, who I know of, at least, do it this way
I have actually stayed in Beit Hachlama with a Chassidish, maybe Yerushalmi type woman, who had no idea what her baby's name would be, on Shabbos. She called her dh on M"S to find out what their Rebbe suggested, so I guess this exists too.

↑ Ruchel ↓

Mon, Jul 29 2024, 9:24 am

Sar Shalom is a name, anyone can use it.
My cousin (husband's cousin is Sar Shalom, Italian).
Met someone whose sibling has 6 names online

amother

↑ Blue ↓

Mon, Jul 29 2024, 10:15 am

amother Babyblue wrote:

Harav Sar Shalom Sharabi was from Yemen, and there was also the first Belzer Rebbe the Sar Shalom. We are not teimani or belzers.

The belzer rebbe's name wasn't sar shalom. That was how he was referred to.
Just like the satmar rav's name wasn't divrei yoel.

amother

Hosta

Mon, Jul 29 2024, 10:37 am

A friend of a friend unfortunately was very sick for years so for each hospitalization he was given an additional name. It got to a point that as per the friend, when he was called up for an aliyah it took quite a long time... like a dozen names or maybe more.