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amother

Sun, Sep 26 2010, 5:07 pm

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if you could offer a list of modern orthodox and/or zionist baby name ideas. Boy and girl!
Thanks

Ruchel

Sun, Sep 26 2010, 5:13 pm

Tzion(a)
Bentsion
Batzion/Bastsion
Israel/Yisroel/Yisruel
Israela
Yehudi, Yehudit?
Herzel
All the places: Moria, Golan, Sinai(a), Hermon(a), Natania, Hertslia, Ranana...
Amishav and all the am names

That's for Zionist. For MO you have all kinds, from those who give Yiddish to those who make up names. many use a name like Liora, Talia, Nir, Odelia, Liam, Galia, Ethan, Lior, Yoan... as first and family names after.

ora_43

Sun, Sep 26 2010, 5:29 pm

Zionist, like specifically related to the Zionist idea (Tzion, Herut, etc)? Or like, dati leumi?

Some popular dati-leumi names:
girls - Moriya, Shira, Noa, Halleli, Tehila, Yael.
boys - Matan, Noam, Yonatan... hmm... most boys names are good, those tend to be more "classic" (eg. Yehuda, Tzvi, Ezra, etc, are all perfectly normal and common names in the dati leumi world). To make it really dati leumi sounding you just add an "iyel" or "iyad" at the end - Ezriel, Aviad, etc.

baba

Sun, Sep 26 2010, 5:32 pm

dont forget hodaya, tchiya

mommy27

Sun, Sep 26 2010, 9:32 pm

girls: Sapir, Hadar, Hila, Ma'ayan
boys: Gil (sorry, I only have girls, so I mostly remember those)

slushiemom

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 2:00 am

Another vote for tzion! We used it for a middle name, and we love it!

BeershevaBubby

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 2:11 am

Boys: Dvir, Elyashiv, Elyasaf

Girls: Shlomtzion, Odelya, Hodaya...

cubbie

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 3:34 am

I love Tzabar for a boy

shevi82

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 4:58 pm

I know someone who named her ds Elyashiv-Because Hashem Heshiv (returned) et Gush Katif. This was during the Hitnatkut.

Zus

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 5:06 pm

Today I heard of a boy called Tavor. As Ruchel said, all the locations are very popular.
Carmel
Yarden
Kineret
Hermon
I even heard of a Levanon
Golan

In right wing circles, I've heard of a Nachala and a Nachala Sheleima.

Tamiri

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 5:08 pm

Boy: Mevasser
Girl: Yir'at
Tohar

freidasima

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 5:15 pm

Dror ( a la Dror Weinberg z"l)
Matanya
Hodaya
Efrat

BeershevaBubby

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 5:24 pm

My cousin named their youngest Levanon... it's one of the names of the Bet Hamikdash.

Butterfly

Mon, Sep 27 2010, 5:42 pm

Girls names (of my Israeli cousins...) not sure if I got the spelling right though.

אורית Urith
שירה Shirah
מיכאל Michal
שרון Sharon

Zus

Tue, Sep 28 2010, 1:34 am

Michal is like this: מיכל
מיכאל is Michael.

grace413

Tue, Sep 28 2010, 1:39 am

Can I still be DL if my kids have more traditional names? And if I don't particularly care for most of the names mentioned here?

Dror is not a good name for people with English speaking relatives.

RachelEve14

Tue, Sep 28 2010, 2:24 am

LOL Grace.

Dh was stuck on wanting a zionistic / Israel type name for ds. We only had a ds after we left EY and came back. But we kept coming back to Avraham, both of us, and feeling it was the name. But he wanted something zionistic. So finally (the night before the Brit) I told dh "who was the first person to make Ayliah?????" Well there you go. Avraham is a zionistic name.

Butterfly

Tue, Sep 28 2010, 2:48 am

Zus wrote:

Michal is like this: מיכל
מיכאל is Michael.

Thanks for the correction. Smile

naomib1112

Mon, Oct 11 2010, 8:36 pm

Some good advice: Ask whichever of your friends has the worst Hebrew accent to pronounce your child's prospective name before you decide.

Example: If your daughter may ever in her lifetime set foot in an Anglo Saxon country or socialize with Anglos, avoid the lovely name "Bat Ami". In Anglo mouths it will come out as "Bottomy". Trust one who knows.

Ruchel

Mon, Oct 18 2010, 3:39 pm

More on Yirat. Apparently the name has been used since Middle Ages especially in Yekke and Italian Yekke circles, sometimes under the form Yiras. My dh has an old cousin named so, I found out recently, who is not MO by any stretch...

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