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Help[Opinions] Israel
Thoughts? Do you like it for a boy? Combos or sibling names welcome. What do you think his parents are like? Nn Izzy?
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Israel honestly isn’t bad name but I wouldn’t use it because people like to make everything political nowadays.
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I don’t really like the idea of having the name of a country. I also think this name has a really heavy religious vibe.
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I knew an Israel who came from Israel. He had been a colonel in, I think, the bomb-disposal squad but came to South Africa to lecture in Hebrew literature - he was a poet as well as a cantor. And his live-in lady was blonde, blue-eyed and German!
I loved my friend; he died too young. But Israel, as well as being a geographical name, is also extremely loaded with political meaning as well as the religious notes of its biblical origin. I would want to know a lot about the bearer and his parents before I could bring myself to like it.
I loved my friend; he died too young. But Israel, as well as being a geographical name, is also extremely loaded with political meaning as well as the religious notes of its biblical origin. I would want to know a lot about the bearer and his parents before I could bring myself to like it.
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It has a nice origin story and sound, but using it in modern times would be too much of a political statement for me. I'm particularly sensitive to this because my NN is a political party.
I'd guess the parents were fundamentalist Christians or maybe Jewish and likely chose the name without thinking of politics.
Israel Jedidiah
brother Solomon Malachi or Abraham Osher
sister Abigail Noa or Keziah Miriam
I'd guess the parents were fundamentalist Christians or maybe Jewish and likely chose the name without thinking of politics.
Israel Jedidiah
brother Solomon Malachi or Abraham Osher
sister Abigail Noa or Keziah Miriam
This message was edited 12/13/2020, 4:19 PM
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You make a valid point. I rather like the name and I am neither of those things. Not particularly religious at all. I just like the way it sounds and that you seldom hear it. I didn't think I thought of it in a political way. But of course it could be seen that way. I may need to re-think this one.
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I don’t like it at all.
Like someone else said I’d a) assume it was a political statement and / or b) think the parents were fundamentalist whatever’s.
Izzy’s kind of cool. I’ve been liking Iggy and Ziggy lately as well.
Like someone else said I’d a) assume it was a political statement and / or b) think the parents were fundamentalist whatever’s.
Izzy’s kind of cool. I’ve been liking Iggy and Ziggy lately as well.
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I like Israel very much. I don't think I'd use a nickname.
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