Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

It's quite important to OH that it is a real Israeli / Hebrew name - he thinks it helped a lot with Isaac (who suffers, of course, from the massive disadvantage of having a shiksha for a mother.....)

OH isn't terribly keen on the two-names thing, he thinks it a bit confusing, prefers to have one that does for both.

Whcih would be fine, if he wasn't so fussy!

LOL. It is going to make the future jewish mother-in-laws pause for breathe.

So you could have my name, which apparently works in hebrew as identical to english, but I'm not telling you what it is.;)

So here is Charlotte in hebrew; Charlotte = שארלוט

lostinrates

The problem with some of the reemerging biblical names is they are becoming quite popular with quite devilish little tykes families.

Miriam is lovely I think, and Mim such a sweet abbreviation.

The two names thing is perfectly 'normal' i yhought? DH has that.

yours are dual nationality, dual culture and will have different expectations potentially to your oh and his eperience of dual nationality.

silvercar

I wanted Natasha as a girl's name. Going spare if you want it.

PasturesNew

You need a name that can be shortened.... so then they'll shorten it .... so that you can call them by their full name when they're in trouble.... and petrify them from the minute you utter it.

silvercar

The two names thing is perfectly 'normal' i yhought? DH has that.

To be fair, the two name thing works in a religious setting, rather than getting off the plane in Tel Aviv and using a different name. The hebrew name is also XX son of YY rather than name+ surname.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

The problem with some of the reemerging biblical names is they are becoming quite popular with quite devilish little tykes families.

Miriam is lovely I think, and Mim such a sweet abbreviation.

The two names thing is perfectly 'normal' i yhought? DH has that.

yours are dual nationality, dual culture and will have different expectations potentially to your oh and his eperience of dual nationality.

OH sees it as a non-Israeli Jewish thing, and (for him) it's old-fashioned - his grandparents or great-grandparents did it, his parents and his generation don't, they all have Jewish names anyway.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

OH has already suggested "Ishmael"......

There's a lot more than that which rules out Chardonay (-:

APologies to any NPs with such-named rellies.

I think Ishmael is a very nice trip off the tongue, but I think, more than Isaac, it feels much more 'Jewish' than 'either'.

My bias is for names should relate like siblings, but not like bookends. They are individuals, so unless you are saving on name tapes or the name particularly fits personally I'd be inclined to consider other initials.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I wanted Natasha as a girl's name. Going spare if you want it.

Vowel ending. Rules out pretty much all of DH's family names too.

DH is a Shlomo.

neverdespairgirl

Yup, vowel endings are no good. My name, and both my sisters' names, sound terrible with OH's surname.

Actually, his mother and grandmother's names (Sara and Lola) went appallingly with it, but you can't blame their respective parents for that, as they married it rather than were born with it!

OH's religious name is NDB Ben Yitzak, and Isaac's is Yitzah Ben NDB, which is rather neatly symmetrical.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

You need a name that can be shortened.... so then they'll shorten it .... so that you can call them by their full name when they're in trouble.... and petrify them from the minute you utter it.

We did that, so that they would have the option rather than threaten them with it.

Now as (supposed) adults, DS1 wants to change his name by deed poll to the shortened version and DS2 loves the longer name and uses both the long and the short. Something we didn't think of was that you can shorten the short version of his name, which some people do, to our dislike.