Bad Baby Names: Worse If They’re Jewish?

Actually, I do know a Shayna who is very pretty. It can happen.

We never got a definitive answer on the New Age strip club question? Could it be that the world finally gets the combination of strippers with Enya being played on Peruvian pan flutes?

For real. Edna in English, but that's her given middle Jewish name. When she is on the phone, my father explains she is "Yenta-ing"

Ralph Lauren's real name is Ralph Lipschitz. Good thing he changed it. I don't think designer clothes would sell well with a "Lipschitz" label.

Joey if you really do have the talent you claim to have, let me offer you some career advice. Quit your fashtinkinen day job and start charging a consulting fee your massive peepee detection 'gift'. 

is in my opinion, a really bad one.  Although my Hebrew name - Tikva - which I went by when I lived in Israel - is a "housekeeper's name".  So everyone called me Tiki.  Which isn't much better.  Nor is Fayge - which is what my grandfather still calls me.

A friend of mine met some Israelis around his age while in Southeast Asia. When they learned his Hebrew name (which he doesn't use) was Yerachmiel, they laughed and said that that's the Israeli equivalent of Eugene. (Apologies to anyone out there with either name, and besides, I defy anyone to mock the talented comedian Eugene Levy. But anyway.) Another said it wasn't just that name specifically, but any Hebrew names that smack of "over"-religiosity to secular Israelis. Which rings true because secular Israelis tend to avoid giving their kids blatantly religious especially names beginning with "Yeho-", or ending with "-el" or "-yahu," all names of God. Nature-based names, like "Tal" (dew) or "Ayelet" (deer), or names reflecting pleasant (but not explicitly religious) qualities, like "Shalom" or "Liora" (I have light).

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Which rings true because secular Israelis tend to avoid giving their
kids blatantly religious names, especially names beginning with "Yeho-", or
ending with "-el" or "-yahu," all names of God. Nature-based names,
like "Tal" (dew) or "Ayelet" (deer), or names reflecting pleasant (but
not explicitly religious) qualities, like "Shalom" or "Liora" (I have
light), are also popular.

the two name Jew name.  Like those uber orthodox ones - Chana Malka, Freidel Leah, Chaia Ruchel... I mean, just one would be PLENTY. 

There are so many that sound bad in English.
popular Israeli girls' names: Moran, Mor, Yael.

Many Israelis name their kids now with US-Friendly names, under the assumption that sooner or later their kids will be, at least temporarily, "yordim". You see a lot of parveh names like "Ben" (not short for Benjamin but just "Ben" --hebrew for 'son') or Tom. However, there are still a few errors in judgment like "Osnat".

According to the last few comments, citizens of the world should all be naming their kids names that sound good in America?  I am not sure if that sentiment is more ridiculous, stupid, American or arrogant.  This is exactly why the rest of the world 'laughs' at Americans, thinking we are all ignorant hicks - shame. 

I went to high school with a kid named "Ulysses Rosenzweig". Talk about your classic Jewish-Hellenic dichotomy right there.

So, wait, someone named Tahl is hating on the name Rokhl? What's so 'hilarious' about Yiddish names? That they're hundreds of years old? That they're connected to generations of Jews that came before me? I'm confused.

As for the double naming, that's also part of an old tradition that arose out of a cultural context and specific needs. For example, for a long time people didn't hold by last names, so instead of having 10 Sores, they'd have a Sore-Rokhl, Sore-Leah, Sore-Malke etc. Having double names also allowed parents to commemorate two deceased relatives.

You writers writing for a Jewish magazine shouldn't even be bothering if you're so self-hating about the names you're people have had for a thousand years. Especially the week before Holocaust rememberance day, you go making fun of the names that the majority of the victim's had.  Why bother writing for a Jewish magazine.  Why bother being Jewish?   Shame, shame, shame. 

Don't get upset Yankl because "Jewcy" is not a Jewish website by any stretch of the imagination. The staff includes anti-Israel, pro-terrorist Arab Muslims and people with intermarriage parents, Jewish father and non-Jewish mother, who are not by any defination Jewish.

"Jewcy" is funded by anti-Jewish groups who want to undermine Judiasm by making it appear that Jews are anti-Israel, anti-Orthodox and pro-intermarriage.  In reality real Jews have the opposite views.

Don't worry most of these frauds are old and unmarried or married to non-Jews.  Most won't reproduce and the ones that will definately have non-Jewish children. 

Don't worry because the radical left-wing, anti-Israel, self-hating, intermarried form of "Judaism" is on it's last legs.  We'll have the last laugh.