S/O unusual names - do you have these in your family tree

amother

Lawngreen

Sun, Oct 18 2020, 4:37 am

amother [ Turquoise ] wrote:

Manya? Nickname for Miriam.

I know a Manya whose given name is Manya.

amother

Lawngreen

Sun, Oct 18 2020, 4:47 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Chatzkel

Isn’t this just a nickname for yechezkel?
Also Rechel רעכל is a family name of mine. Great grandsomeone.

amother

Lawngreen

Sun, Oct 18 2020, 4:49 am

amother [ Peach ] wrote:

Love the name Fradel. That's my baby's name, named after a beloved grandma.
It's פראדל with a patach.

Chaya Fradel is the name in my family.

amother

Lawngreen

Sun, Oct 18 2020, 4:55 am

amother [ Hotpink ] wrote:

Yekusiel.
My uncle is the only one I know.

Not related, but I know one called Kuti.

Chaya123

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 7:52 am

amother [ Cerulean ] wrote:

What do they mean? I know one is Aliza...

Aliza is the Hebrew name for Frayda, which means happiness.
Not sure of Fradel meaning.

amother

Olive

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 8:00 am

amother [ Amber ] wrote:

I'm fradel and my cousin also is fradel but they call my cousin frieda and I dislike that name immensely.
Yet Fradel and Fraidel is two different names but I dont think I would name my daughter fraidel

I'm Fradel (with 2 other names, called by one of them) and we wanted to name our daughter Frayda with another name (after grandparent) and were told it's 2 diff names. However, one of our parents asked us not to as it's too similar so we didn't and named her just the 2nd name.

Chaya123

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 8:02 am

mochamix18 wrote:

I knew the nicest lady named Devosha in Brooklyn during my single years. The name was very fitting

I also knew someone years ago by this name.
More recently, I heard someone who wanted to give this name but were told can do Devorah instead, as it's similar enough.
I guess makes sense, one is honey, the other is bee. Smile

amother

Emerald

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 8:40 am

amf wrote:

Susha, or the nickname version shushi/soshi

That is a family name in the well known Horowitz family
I think there are a few Sora Soshas

amother

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 8:49 am

Chaya123 wrote:

Aliza is the Hebrew name for Frayda, which means happiness.
Not sure of Fradel meaning.

Aliza is Yenta
Simcha/Rina is Fraida

amother

Mustard

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 9:05 am

Chaya123 wrote:

Not all, just some. It's the yiddish version and sometimes, there's already a Yehuda in the family etc and they're told to call the yiddish version.

Leib is Yiddish for Aryeh. The connection to yehudah is because Yaakov avinu compared his son yehudah to a lion. But where do you get zalmen from yekusiel? I thought Zalmen comes from Solomon

amother

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 9:07 am

amother [ Mustard ] wrote:

Leib is Yiddish for Aryeh. The connection to yehudah is because Yaakov avinu compared his son yehudah to a lion. But where do you get zalmen from yekusiel? I thought Zalmen comes from Solomon

No idea but in our communities every Zalmen is a Yekusiel and they can have a brother, father, son Shlomo. Leibs are usually Aryeh and Yidel's are Yehudas

amother

Fuchsia

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 9:46 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Aliza is Yenta
Simcha/Rina is Fraida

Aliza is also Fraida according to many people.

amother

Brunette

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 11:46 am

Aliza is Fraida (Meaning joy)
Adina is Yentel (meaning fine or genteel - which gives you Yentel)

Yekusiel Yehuda = Zalman Leib.
Yehuda because he's compared to a lion
Yekusiel, I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's because Yekusiel is one of Shlomo hamelech's names, and Zalman is Solomon.

The Klausenburger Rebbe was Yekusiel Yehuda (called Zalman Leib) and there are many people named after him.

amother

Brunette

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 11:47 am

amother [ Emerald ] wrote:

That is a family name in the well known Horowitz family
I think there are a few Sora Soshas

Of course there are! Sora Sosha was the mother of Rebbe Levi Yitzchak miBerditchev!

amother

Olive

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 12:38 pm

amother [ Brunette ] wrote:

I thought Adina was Hebrew for Aidel.
Yes, many names after Klausenberg Rebbe are called Zalmen Leib.

amother

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 1:21 pm

amother [ Brunette ] wrote:

Zalmen Leib is the only time I really hear Leib for Yehuda otherwise it's usually Yidel or Yiddy. I'm sorry yes Adina is Yenta.