Help!!! | Imamother

amother

Fri, Dec 24 2021, 12:56 am

Looking for a name with meaning for a girl.

Both me and my husband have lost several family members in the past year And can't use any of the names yet I really want to be able to commemorate all of them. Any ideas of names for a girl? I was thinking of something like Menucha Shulamis for rest in peace but I don't love the name and I'm unsure of what to do.

Other meaningful names we cannot use are:
Nechama
Bracha
Leiba
Tova

Any ideas???

amother

Leaf

Fri, Dec 24 2021, 1:07 am

Ruchama - like for rachamim

Rochel - Rochel Imeinu- Rachel mevaka al baneha

Simcha is used as a girl's name in some circles. If you wouldn't, how about another version of simcha - Rina, Gila, or a yiddish version (Fraida?)

amother

Fri, Dec 24 2021, 1:14 am

Can't use rochel.
We already have Nechama so would prefer to skip ruchama. And have already named for frayda.... using aliza as Hebrew.

Do you know the exact translations for Rina and gila?

WhatFor

Fri, Dec 24 2021, 1:19 am

I wouldn't name a child rest in peace because it's a name focused on the loss when you probably mean to remember and celebrate the lives of those lost.

Ahava or Ahuva mean love or beloved.

Are there special attributes of those lost you'd like to remember?

amother

Leaf

Fri, Dec 24 2021, 2:22 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Both me and my husband have lost several family members in the past year And can't use any of the names yet I really want to be able to commemorate all of them.

amother

Fri, Dec 24 2021, 3:10 am

3 relatives we lost are male and this baby is a girl.
My grandmother has same name as my mil
And the other female relative we were asked not to name after her by her children.

But we still want the name to be meaningful for these people.

jerusalem90

Sun, Dec 26 2021, 4:47 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Shalva (calm)
Ahuva (beloved)
Libi (my heart)
Chedva (bliss)
Amit (this is a unisex name) (friend)
Raaya (beloved friend)
Reut (friendship)
Rina (joyful song)
Renana (joyful song)
Halel/Halleli
Shulamit
Shimrit (protector, keeper) so like a "keeper" of the memory of those you lost
Chaviva
Yikrat/Yakira (precious)

amother

Dustypink

Thu, Dec 30 2021, 5:47 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

You don’t say what the names are, but could you manage to name indirectly after them? For example, my daughter is named indirectly after an Aharon, so we used Elisheva, for Aharon’s wife, because ishto kegufo. She’s also indirectly named after a grandmother named Rus, who was my grandfather Aharon’s wife, but we preferred not to use Rus because there are too many different pronunciations.

Then we gave my son the middle name Ariel because he’s named after two Shlomos (Ariel is another name for the Beis Hamikdash), an Aharon, an Aryeh, and an Avraham.

If you feel comfortable sharing the names, I’d love to help. Names are fun.

amother

Thu, Dec 30 2021, 11:23 am

amother [ Dustypink ] wrote:

The names are
Moshe ×2
Noach
Batsheva
Miriam

amother

Amaryllis

Thu, Dec 30 2021, 11:44 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Why ever not?! They don't own the name either way.

amother

Dustypink

Thu, Dec 30 2021, 11:50 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

The names are
Moshe ×2
Noach
Batsheva
Miriam

Maya

All four of these have water in common.

I’ll get back to you if I think of any more.

Edit: Batya Menucha, or Menucha Batya. Batya as a phonetic nod to Batsheva and a “family ties” nod to Moshe, and Menucha as a phonetic nod to Moshe and a similar meaning to Noach.

amother

Thu, Dec 30 2021, 12:46 pm

amother [ Amaryllis ] wrote:

Why ever not?! They don't own the name either way.

It was someone who died young, her children are all young and unmarried and her they want to be the first to name after her.
My husband understands completely and we have no arguments but he still wants to commemorate her somehow with the babies name.