What are the most unusual first names in your family tree?

amother

Cerulean ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 3:11 pm

amother Peach wrote:

I know a Serach

I know a family with a lot of Serachs. After a grandmother.

amother

↑ Cerulean ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 3:17 pm

Branchel
Zlata
Feila
Tzurtel
Chasha
Stisha- there was one in my kids school. I was shocked.
Rishka
Also an Avraham and Pinchas who were called Avrumcha and pincha.
Yochved
Shayna Elka who was called Shnelka
Sussa

amother

Seagreen

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 3:57 pm

amother Babyblue wrote:

My Dh is Paul. I always thought that was very non-Jewish. (He has a very Jewish Hebrew name.)

. Every Pinchas I ever met in my youth was either a Paul or a Philip. Certain Yekkes make a point of giving very unJewish-sounding secular names, even if those names are used only on legal documents and bank accounts.

What's a nonJewish HEBREW name? Yeshu Hanotzri, maybe? But he was a Jew even if he did spark a disastrous spinoff religion.

amother

Petunia

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 4:14 pm

amother Seagreen wrote:

Lol.
My husband name is pinches and his english, legal name is pinkas.

amother

↑ Cerulean ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 4:18 pm

Ruchel wrote:

Stisha: #breslev ?

I don't think so. Why?

amother

Hibiscus ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 5:12 pm

Tanchum but he’s called by his first name.

Rendel
Malia

amother

↑ Apricot

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 5:21 pm

amother Hibiscus wrote:

Tanchum but he’s called by his first name.

Rendel
Malia

I know a Tanchum who goes by Tanchum.
I don't think Malia/Malya is such an unusual name

amother

Tulip

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 5:46 pm

My grandmother was named Eka. She had three names, so this is one of them.

amother

Outerspace ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 5:49 pm

amother Cerulean wrote:

Why shocked by stisha?

amother

↑ Smokey

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 6:54 pm

Paltiel....

My great great grandfather,uncle,second cousin and nephew....

amother

Aqua

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 7:29 pm

Wow I read 6 pages and I don’t see my sisters name! And it’s biblical!!

Yisca

amother

Catmint ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 7:30 pm

amother Aqua wrote:

Wow I read 6 pages and I don’t see my sisters name! And it’s biblical!!

Yisca

I also know a yisca!

amother

↑ Hibiscus ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 7:30 pm

amother Aqua wrote:

Wow I read 6 pages and I don’t see my sisters name! And it’s biblical!!

Yisca

I had a Sara yiska in my class

amother

Emerald

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 7:33 pm

tigerwife wrote:

What does the name Rella mean (a few people mentioned it)? I like the sound of it.

My grandmothers Hungarian name was Rella
Her Jewish name was Faiga Rivka but people who knew her in the old country thought it was her Jewish name

↑ miami85

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 7:48 pm

In my family tree going back 6 generations in the Latvia/Lithuania area of Europe I have an ancestor "Elkana" I don't know much about him other than that name. I don't know if he had a "Common name", whereas I asked on a geneology website and was told it "wasn't so uncommon"--Most names I hear from that era are more of the classic/yiddish variety--Beryl, Velvel, Leib, Avremel etc.

amother

↑ Hibiscus ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 7:48 pm

amother Ghostwhite wrote:

Udya
Udel
Fruma yuta

I have udel and yuta in my family.

amother

Freesia ↓

Mon, Sep 30 2024, 7:59 pm

amother Linen wrote:

I'm not gonna out myself. My mom has the weirdest name. I hope she lives till the 120.

In our immediate family runs
Gella
Kayla
Draizy
Mirel

Extended
Charny
Shmaya
Tertza
Tuna

In my sils family
Machla
Yospa or yosifa, never figured it
Elyakim

ETA-Unusual names I know people named are
Mammel
Chantzy
Shlumtza
Lifsha
Chinka

But truthfully, what's unusual for one maybe be super usual and common for another.

I find many of these not usual. I'm Mirel Wink