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Baby Name Shortage

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myself

Tue, May 17 2011, 9:35 am

Israeli couple name baby after Facebook feature.

http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/......html

There's obviously a shortage of names... Confused

bigsis144

Tue, May 17 2011, 10:26 am

That is utterly ridiculous... LOL

imaima

Tue, May 17 2011, 2:49 pm

I did not know those were Israelis. What a shame.

Isramom8

Tue, May 17 2011, 3:04 pm

It's sort of cute. But a waste on a Jewish neshama. (the Facebook connotation, not the meaning "to like", "ahava").

Other cute but not very meaningful names:
Google
Twitter
Croc (maybe not so cute...)

More Jewish ones:
Only (as in onlysimchas)
Syas (Saw You At Sinai)

Barbara

Tue, May 17 2011, 3:10 pm

Shrug. People give their kids silly names.

David Duchovny and Tea Leoni named their kid Kyd. No kidding. Or kydding.

Bob Geldolf and Paula Yates' kids are Fifi Trixibell, Peaches, and Pixie. And Geldolf raised Yates' daughter with David Hutchence, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily

Rob Morrow's daughter is Tu.

My friend M once had an assistant whose granddaughter's name was Idiot. Pronounced EYE-dee-oht.

God Shammgod played in the NBA. He apparently preferred to be called Shammgod Wells, but in college, was required to use his real name or legally change it. He couldn't afford to change it, so God played basketball.

From a website:

Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K

GoldenPalaceDotCom Silverman

Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (Pronounced "albin")

BusyBeeMommy

Tue, May 17 2011, 3:31 pm

I work with a lot of babies. These are some names I've come across: twins named London and Paris. A girl named Brook Lynn.

DrMom

Tue, May 17 2011, 3:42 pm

Naming you child "Like" is awful.

At least name him "Love" and people will think you're a bit of a freespirit. "Like"? Blech.

Sherri

Tue, May 17 2011, 3:44 pm

Barbara wrote:

Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (Pronounced "albin")

Aribenj

Wed, May 18 2011, 2:50 pm

OMG this thread has me rolling Rolling Laughter

Now, is the Hebrew equivalent "Ahava" or "Kehilu"????

c.c.cookie

Wed, May 18 2011, 2:53 pm

I'm changing my name to Morrow so that I can name my kid (kyd?) Tu. Love it. Or Like. Whatever. (hey - that's a good name!)

grin

Wed, May 18 2011, 3:00 pm

BusyBeeMommy wrote:

A girl named Brook Lynn.

(and to think that my kids complain about their names!)

Mirabelle

Wed, May 18 2011, 3:04 pm

Booklyn as a girls name in the secular world is VERY popular right now.
Although I bet that most of the people who use that name live somewhere in the midwest and have NEVER been to actual Brooklyn...it's not exactly a beautiful or tranquil place...

shalhevet

Wed, May 18 2011, 3:11 pm

This is unfortunately quite a trend in Israel today. The more unusual your child's name, the cooler and trendier you are.

They had a facetious article on this once in the Hebrew Yated - that a woman had been in the hospital and she didn't know what to call her daughter, and so they asked someone frum there if such and such a name (which escapes me, unfortunately) is from the sources - it was the name of a type of dye mentioned in the gemorra, but to them, that meant it was a Jewish name from the sources.

The facetious writer asked why they hadn't just named their daughter Tamboura (Tambour is a famous Israeli brand of paint).

BTW, Shlomo Carlebach's daughter is called Neshama Tehora Sheyarda La'olam. Neshama is just for short.

kalsee

Wed, May 18 2011, 3:14 pm

shalhevet wrote:

BTW, Shlomo Carlebach's daughter is called Neshama Tehora Sheyarda La'olam. Neshama is just for short.

I've heard that the full name is ...sheyarda laolam b'erev shabbos kodesh

Isramom8

Wed, May 18 2011, 3:16 pm

Neshama's first name is Esther (and then she has those other names).

ora_43

Wed, May 18 2011, 3:17 pm

"Like" is bad, but IMHO still better than "Nimrod" (which is a name that's really used in some Israeli circles).

shalhevet I've head of a few Carlebachi-type names like that. "Yetziat Mitrayim," etc, as baby names.

Isramom8

Wed, May 18 2011, 3:19 pm

I was thinking that I guess they will spell Like in Hebrew lamed-yud-yud-kuf. So she will have the name of Hashem in her name. A redeeming quality. Thumbs Up

Isramom8

Wed, May 18 2011, 3:22 pm

When I had one baby, a baby that was born received the name Choshen. His father went to the Misrad Hapnim to make sure there were no others in Israel. He always did that.

Shopmiami49

Wed, May 18 2011, 4:10 pm

My father delivered a baby to the "Time" family and they named their little boy Justin... hehehe

Well, on the topic of names, my mother flipped when I named my first pet goldfish at the tender (yet precocious!!) age of 2.5...

I have no clue what inspired me, but here goes - Her name was SarahElishevaRacheliTeshuva

Mama Bear

Wed, May 18 2011, 4:13 pm

My hospital roommate when mendy ws born named her daughter Manhattan Sara.

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