names I would never use

Tehilla

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 4:21 pm

how about names you love instead of potentially insulting people on here

Piper

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 4:36 pm

Ruchel wrote:

MANY Jewish women are called Mary (most of the French Miriam go by Marie, and Miriam is common!). My own mam is a Marie LOL

I must say I have seen Fatima on Judeo Arabic ladies. Did you know Rambam's wife was Jamila??

Mark is also typically used for Mordechai, for centuries... John/Jean for Yochanan or Yoni and Matthew/Matthieu for Matityahu also common...

LOL

Yenta I dislike, Yentl is very cute.

I would never use:
- most "sad story" names: Dina, Tamar, Dvorah Lea
- names I don't find beautiful
- names that don't "speak" to me (from very different origins, like a Judeo Arabic name).

Ok, culture clash here
LOL

These names are uncommon in the US (for Jews)

Lechatchila Ariber

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 4:37 pm

yeah this isn't a very nice thread...........

although the goldie fish thing is funny Tongue Out

Piper

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 4:38 pm

chocolate moose wrote:

mimivan wrote:

Ruchel isn't sooo different...

I DIDN'T MEAN HER NAME! I MEANT HER OUTLOOK!

Which is why I like her

Ruchel

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 5:15 pm

Piper wrote:

chocolate moose wrote:

mimivan wrote:

Ruchel isn't sooo different...

I DIDN'T MEAN HER NAME! I MEANT HER OUTLOOK!

Which is why I like her

thanks Piper Very Happy

I have found this page, about some French rabbis and rebbetzins:

* Isaac BAER ("Reb Itzig")
* Schlomo BAMBERGER
* Abraham BLOCH
* Armand BLOCH
* Elie BLOCH
* Joseph BLOCH
* Moïse BLOCH dit le ‘Hokhem de Uttenheim
* Robert BRUNSCHWIG
* Mortché CAHN
* Elie CYPER
* Simon DEBRÉ
* Moïse DEBRÉ
* Abraham et Marguerite DEUTSCH
* Robert DREYFUS
* Charles FRIEDEMANN
* Simon et Raymonde FUKS
* Raymond-Tsvi FURTH (PORATH)
* Moïse GINSBURGER
* Ernest GUGENHEIM
* Max GUGENHEIM
* Paul HAGUENAUER
* Albert HAZAN
* René et Simone HIRSCHLER
* Abraham David HOROWITZ
* Lazare ISIDOR
* Jacques KAHN
* Roger et Colette KAHN
* Zadoc KAHN
* René Samuel KAPEL
* Jacob KAPLAN
* Salomon Wolf KLEIN
* Samy KLEIN
* Jean KLING

* Israël LÉVI
* Emile LEVY
* Isaac LÉVY
* Jérôme LÉVY
* Simon LÉVY
* Isaac LIBERMANN
* Lazard LIBERMANN
* Victor MARX
* Meïr de Rothenbourg
* Honel MEISS
* Jacob MEYER
* Simon MORALI
* Paul ROITMAN
* Itshak Hacohen RUNÈS
* Léopold SARASIN
* Henri SCHILLI
* Edmond et Roselise SCHWOB
* Samuel de Schletstat
* Justin SCHUHL
* Moïse SCHUHL
* Isaïe SCHWARTZ
* David SINTZHEIM
* Salomon ULLMANN
* Osias WALLACH
* Max et Mireille WARSCHAWSKI
* Moïse WEIL
* Edgard WEILL
* Ernest WEILL
* Julien WEILL
* Aron WOLF
* Aaron WORMS

Notice the numerous ones who go by a French form of a Hebrew name, or by a fully French name.

amother

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 5:38 pm

No Cm, not afraid of you, just don't want to be targeted by you. Don't want to be the target of your derision.

Maya

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 5:47 pm

How is that boys' name Rene pronounced? Like Renee Zellweger?

bashinda

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 5:56 pm

My alta bubbe (actually alter zeide's mother) was Mary - Miriam.

I don't see it's that offensive why people would say they wouldn't use Genendel or whatever. If I was Genendel I'd think "hey you just can't handle the heat so leave the kitchen" and proudly tell me tht I'm Genendel. Or neny for short.

I don't think I'd ever use this name but I do like Shprintza.

And having a Devorah Leah I think it's pretty amazing to name a daughter after someone with as much mesiras nefesh as the REbbetzin Devorah Leah did.

And in other news, I find Ruchel's hashkafa interesting and I often learn something new from her. Although perhaps I wouldn't do well living in her com (can't stand denim!)

Ruchel

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 6:02 pm

momtomor wrote:

How is that boys' name Rene pronounced? Like Renee Zellweger?

ruh-neh would be the closest. For man (René) like for woman (Renée), although some would pronounce Renée with a longer sound in the end.

greenfire

Sun, Sep 09 2007, 6:25 pm

wow ... I finally opened the thread ... wasn't sure how bad the name bashing got ... Banging head