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Help[Facts] hebrew names
I know many Jewish people with non-Jewish names get a Herbrew name (Mark=Moshe, Hanna=Chanah). If a boy's full name was Rhys David, what would his Hebrew name be? What about a girl named Brooke Elisabeth?
C. M. C. J.
C. M. C. J.
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Actually most Jewish people who have a vernacular (= non religious that you use in your every day life) name also have a Hebrew (or Yiddish, Ladino...) one. Especially boys, who need to be named when they are circumsized.
The Jewish name can have same initial, or sound close, or have no relation at all. Most of the time the parents find the Jewish name first (for example a family name, or a name significant to the period of the birth of the child), and then find a vernacular.
Rhys David could be just David. I don't see any name that would go with Rhys.
Brooke Elisabeth could also be just Elisheva. Possibilities for Brooke: Breindel (yiddish), Braina (yiddish), Brillante / Brilante (ladino), Brianda (ladino), Bracha (hebrew), Brucha (yiddish), Brocho (yiddish).
Prononciation here: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=178459&board=gen
I don't think ethnic names like Rhys and fashionable names like Brooke are very used among Jews though.
~~ Claire ~~
The Jewish name can have same initial, or sound close, or have no relation at all. Most of the time the parents find the Jewish name first (for example a family name, or a name significant to the period of the birth of the child), and then find a vernacular.
Rhys David could be just David. I don't see any name that would go with Rhys.
Brooke Elisabeth could also be just Elisheva. Possibilities for Brooke: Breindel (yiddish), Braina (yiddish), Brillante / Brilante (ladino), Brianda (ladino), Bracha (hebrew), Brucha (yiddish), Brocho (yiddish).
Prononciation here: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=178459&board=gen
I don't think ethnic names like Rhys and fashionable names like Brooke are very used among Jews though.
~~ Claire ~~
This message was edited 4/11/2005, 6:13 PM
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Yes, they would be acceptable, especially Raanan. But now that I think of it, Raanan is a modern name (= probably not used before the re creation of Israel) and is probably only used in Israel, where children don't have vernacular names.
For Jews, Michal is a form of Michael, so we don't see it as "brook". But who knows, maybe if the parents weren't well informed...
As for Nahal, it is a male name... For a girl it could be Nachalit ("little river"), but it is a name like Raanan (modern, only in Israel, no vernacular), or Nachala, but it means "inheritance".
~~ Claire ~~
For Jews, Michal is a form of Michael, so we don't see it as "brook". But who knows, maybe if the parents weren't well informed...
As for Nahal, it is a male name... For a girl it could be Nachalit ("little river"), but it is a name like Raanan (modern, only in Israel, no vernacular), or Nachala, but it means "inheritance".
~~ Claire ~~
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