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Post Sat, Dec 29 2018, 10:54 pm
aliavi wrote:
My second name is Avigail, said like the English Abigail, not the Avigaayle, Hebrew pronunciation. I had a rebbe that refused to call me by it because he said it wasn’t a proper name, so, OP, “obscure” may not work out all well.


I'm shocked! You're rebbe does not know Sefer Shmuel. Avigail was the wife of David Hamelech. That is beyond wierd that he wouldn't know that name.

Maybe you mean he hadn't heard of the English form Abigail? Or had he not heard of the woman in the Tanach Avigail?!
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dankbar




 
 
    
 

Post Sat, Dec 29 2018, 11:38 pm
Here's a list of funny weird girl names in yiddish.
Dvosha, Trana, Yenta, Shprintza,Genendl, Toltsa,Tuna, Dolly,Malya, Dobrish, Mirish, Zlate, Gella, Minka, Ella,Fali, Fanny,Bobcha, Dobba, Gnesa, Gnesha,Yachet, Vitel, Glickel, Hudis, Rudel, Sosha, Ecka
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dankbar




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 12:16 am
More....alte, mechtcha, pella, pesha, hencha, hentza, chancha, mamel, mattel, madel, lifsha,
Rella, basha, dobra, eiga, nena, zelda, elka, frimchy, surel, serel.
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Its Friday




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 12:51 am
I like hodayah and tehilah. My community does not give but I like those. I believe hodayah is less common than tehila.

Our customer gave Ava. I dont know the source. She said its not Ahava
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Its Friday




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 12:53 am
dankbar wrote:
More....alte, mechtcha, pella, pesha, hencha, hentza, chancha, mamel, mattel, madel, lifsha,
Rella, basha, dobra, eiga, nena, zelda, elka, frimchy, surel, serel.


You forgot Kreinchy
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Ruchel




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 1:22 am
I loved many of those and have actually used some of them.
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salt




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 2:02 am
Its Friday wrote:
I like hodayah and tehilah. My community does not give but I like those. I believe hodayah is less common than tehila.

Our customer gave Ava. I dont know the source. She said its not Ahava


Do you live in Israel? In Israel these 2 names are very popular in all religious circles.
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etky




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 2:38 am
salt wrote:
Do you live in Israel? In Israel these 2 names are very popular in all religious circles.


In fact, most of the Hebrew names that were listed here are pretty popular in Israel - and even those that are rarer are not what can be considered 'obscure'. I have no idea about the Yiddish ones.
That is why I asked OP for clarification.
It's kind of ridiculous to expect us to offer names w/o more particulars like: gender, what kind of community OP belongs to and where she lives and the degree of obscurity that she is seeking.
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amother
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Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 2:45 am
Eshdat
Achva
Bitya (not Batya)
Tohar
Bilhah
Zilpah
Ada (as in wife of Lemech)
Kalanit
Chavatzelet

Navo
Yoshiyahu
Kalev
Ada (as in "bar Ahava")
Kohelet

all people I know
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Iymnok




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 3:49 am
Which country and which circles are you in? I was quite surprised by some of the (beautiful) names that are accepted in my chareidi community.
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Bruria




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 4:15 am
Thank you all so much!
I'm in the US, and looking for names for both boy and girl, and I'm really glad you gave me so many ideas!
Yes, certainly there are names that work in Israel but not here and I will take that into consideration, and at the same time I'm trying to find something that would go well in both countries since moving to Israel is possible at some point.
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butterfly2




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Dec 30 2018, 10:45 pm
How about Tziona? Or Margalit? Penina? Michal? Mazal?
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Ruchel




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 31 2018, 12:43 am
THose are very very common
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etky




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 31 2018, 1:59 am
Ruchel wrote:
Those are very very common

They are indeed common (in Israel), but -aside from Michal - you'll find them mostly in the over-70 crowd.
Michal trends younger too.
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Ruchel




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 31 2018, 2:17 am
In France I def know younger ones. We also have this yiddish revival that warms my heart. One year Mati had basically only names like Perla, Alte... in her class
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dankbar




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 31 2018, 6:12 am
Viznitz is full of Margalit, Margulia,Guli named after viznitz rebetzin
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dankbar




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 31 2018, 6:13 am
Mazal is very common by sephardim
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amother
Royalblue


 

Post Mon, Dec 31 2018, 6:44 am
Adiella
Aviella
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