Father and son having matching names

amother

Arcticblue

Yesterday at 3:58 pm

amother Brown wrote:

I know a shoshana that has a daughter raizy, and because they’re sefardi, her granddaughter is once again shoshana! The only one that seemed weird to me was someone whose name was roiz and her daughter was raizel.

Must be my cousins😉
The only Syrian raizels around

amother

NeonPink ↓

Yesterday at 4:28 pm

amother Steelblue wrote:

What were the name? Yeshaya and what?

Shee’ah or Sheeala is Yehoshua like the leader who took us into EY.
Shaya or Shayala is Yeshaya like the Navi.

amother

↑ NeonPink ↓

Yesterday at 4:30 pm

amother Arcticblue wrote:

Must be my cousins😉
The only Syrian raizels around

You’d be surprised. Might not be the only. There’s a lot of intermarriage these days, especially outside of Israel. This is a good kind of intermarriage and leads to some interesting names.

amother

Crystal

Yesterday at 5:04 pm

amother OP wrote:

If you heard a man named Yehuda Leib name his son Ariel _____ (undecided on middle name) would you think that was odd?

We’ve gotten psak that they’re two separate names so we could do it if we wanted to, but we both wonder if it would be strange.

My husband's name is Meir but he goes by his other name.
We named our son Yair, which is what we call him.
Didn't even realize for a while that it was basically the same name TMI

They both have additional names so it's not like yair ben meir- but still weird in my opinion

amother

↑ Rainbow ↓

Yesterday at 6:02 pm

amother OP wrote:

I’m not sure if you’re talking about your examples here or our names?

If Moshe marries Masha or Masha marries Sasha, what can you do, they didn't plan it that way and you make your peace with it. But I object to deliberately matching names like naming twins Bayla and Kayla or Baruch and Bracha. So twee it makes my teeth ache.

Yehuda Leib and Ariel or even Aryeh aren't remotely similar. If the man was named at his bris Yehuda Leib, not Yehuda Aryeh, and that's how he's called to the Torah, why do you think it's problematic to name his son Aryeh or Ariel?

amother

Ecru ↓

Yesterday at 6:51 pm

amother Teal wrote:

Wouldn’t think anything of it.

(I know a Baruch with a bracha…)

My husband is Baruch and we have a Bracha. Also we have a son Chaim and a daughter Chaya. All named after family, not for cutesy reasons.

amother

↑ OP

Yesterday at 6:52 pm

amother Rainbow wrote:

Thank’s for clarifying. I’m looking for honest opinions, so I appreciate it.

It doesn’t feel cutesy to me in the same way as bayla and Kayla but if I heard a Leib name his son Aryeh or Ari I’d kind of side eye it. like “do you not know you just gave him the same name, or did you do that on purpose?” Kind of thing. Ariel feels borderline to me, because it doesn’t only mean lion so I wanted to know what others thought.

amother

↑ Ecru ↓

Yesterday at 6:55 pm

amother NeonPink wrote:

You’d be surprised. Might not be the only. There’s a lot of intermarriage these days, especially outside of Israel. This is a good kind of intermarriage and leads to some interesting names.

I have a friend whose first name is Arabic and whose last name is stereotypically Ashkenazi. Named after his mother’s father.

amother

Wandflower

Yesterday at 7:00 pm

A family member I know is Ari (Aron), his sil is Ari (Arye) and Ari's (Arye) son, Ari's (Aron) grandson, is Yehuda named after a great grandfather that was called Leib. (Arye is Leib too.) Yehuda is therefore called Yiddy...

amother

Aqua ↓

Yesterday at 7:04 pm

Ruchel wrote:

Among Sephardim you name like GRANDfather

Sorry...just want to say:

SOME sephardim. Not all, by any stretch. For example, Persians don't do this, and also don't have a real minhag of naming after deceased relatives (though some have started to do this a little bit, being influenced by Americans around us).

The Ben Ish Chai (Iraqi, sephardi gadol and posek) specifically says that a person needs permission from his (living) father if he wants to use the name for his son.

amother

↑ IndianRed

Yesterday at 7:07 pm

amother Brown wrote:

I know someone who had two sons sheyala and shayala. Listen, you do you!

They have both been my sons classmates LOL

chestnut

Yesterday at 7:09 pm

amother Ecru wrote:

I have a friend whose first name is Arabic and whose last name is stereotypically Ashkenazi. Named after his mother’s father.

Is he a Dr in Flatbush? I always wonder about his name sign, but I did think about a mixed marriage lol

amother

↑ Aqua

Yesterday at 7:13 pm

My son has a friend named dovy. His father was speaking at an event recently and we were confused all shabbos how his father's name was "Rabbi something Dov something"
Turns out the son's name is dovid and somehow he's called dovy.

amother

↑ Ecru

Yesterday at 7:58 pm

chestnut wrote:

Is he a Dr in Flatbush? I always wonder about his name sign, but I did think about a mixed marriage lol

I have kind of lost track of him. Not sure what he does now. First name is Selim.

amother

↑ Rainbow

Yesterday at 10:11 pm

There's no way on this green earth that I'd name a sister and brother Chaya and Chaim. Or Eliezer and Elisheva for that matter, because chances are they'd wind up being called Eli and Ellie. Not for any woo-woo reason, I totally don't believe in that, but because it can get messy with school tests and blood tests and confusing for ordinary mortals whose hearing may not be perfect.