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What are the most unusual first names in your family tree?
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:40 am
Question in title. What are the weirdest, most unusual first names in your family tree? All the posts about names made me wonder!
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:45 am
We had Rella, Rishi, Dolly, Molly, Yenta,

R u my cousin
We have rella rishi dolly Molly
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:46 am
Ritchel, Shmelka
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:47 am
Bedanna
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:49 am
Lifsha
Yetta
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:53 am
We have Elkana--what makes it weird is that this is my great-great-grandfather--going back to mid-1800s, no secular/yiddish name from what I can tell and he lived in Lithuania/Russia. It seems like an unusual name for that time period.
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 10:57 am
I don't know what your description of unusual is?
Dacha. Yetta (I think it was a nickname for Yachet?) Alta. Rella. Edith. Necha. Delz.


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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:00 am
Mannis
Fella
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:01 am
My mother had a friend A”H, who’s relative was named: Raizel Draizel Chika Baba
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:06 am
miami85 wrote:
We have Elkana--what makes it weird is that this is my great-great-grandfather--going back to mid-1800s, no secular/yiddish name from what I can tell and he lived in Lithuania/Russia. It seems like an unusual name for that time period.

My baby nephew is Elkana. We call him Elky. It's super cute and fits him perfectly. My sister named him after my grandmother, Elka. Also, Elkana was a very important person in Tanach. I wonder why there aren't more of them walking around.
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:17 am
Glickel
Susie
Pellie
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:44 am
We have Pia which people are shocked we use but I legit think it is one of the nicest names out there. Plus a bunch of other unusual names are in our family tree.
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:47 am
amother [ Pearl ] wrote:
We have Pia which people are shocked we use but I legit think it is one of the nicest names out there. Plus a bunch of other unusual names are in our family tree.


I once knew someone Chaya Paya!
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:50 am
I'm not gonna out myself. My mom has the weirdest name. I hope she lives till the 120.

In our immediate family runs
Gella
Kayla
Draizy
Mirel

Extended
Charny
Shmaya
Tertza
Tuna


In my sils family
Machla
Yospa or yosifa, never figured it
Elyakim

ETA-Unusual names I know people named are
Mammel
Chantzy
Shlumtza
Lifsha
Chinka

But truthfully, what's unusual for one maybe be super usual and common for another.
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:56 am
Kuntzah (never heard this anywhere else)
Alexandra
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 11:59 am
If you're looking for a list of unusual useable names, here are some that are quite useable in that I know children or adults with these names.

Girls
Agi
Rani
Tila
Feila
Kresel
Shleema
Draizel, Dreya
Malya
Silka
Dora
Lana
Mechya
Pinia
Nena
Toltzah
Shlumtza
Miresh
Kroina
Kreindel
Rochma (for Ruchama)
Necha (Not Nicha)
Priva
Reva
Tzina
Menya

Men
Elyakim is Getzel btw not unusual
Pesachya
Berachya
Amram
Malkiel
Hillel
Tudrus
Klonimus
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 12:00 pm
Kuntzah is for boys or girls?
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 12:03 pm
Mantza
Pella
Shmelka
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 12:07 pm
Hencha
Dreizel
Yentl
Yachet
Vitya
Pesha
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amother
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Post Tue, Oct 06 2020, 12:11 pm
My Dh is Paul. I always thought that was very non-Jewish. (He has a very Jewish Hebrew name.)
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