Reply To: Naming A Child After Someone With Weird Name

Kids ARE affected by their names. Personally, I wouldn’t use a Yiddish name to begin with, because it is no more Jewish than an English name (but that’s another discussion thread). I only named my kids in Loshon Kodesh. If a name is really unpleasant or funny-sounding and could lead to the child being made fun of, DON’T DO IT, no matter how choshuv the person was, whose name you want to give your child. And if your last name might be problematic when the first name is added in, I would also think twice (like naming a child whose family name is “Berlin,” Chaim.