Wierd, Great or Interesting Names

I have a strong strong desire to finish up all the family names so that I can name a daughter Fraidel Knaidel. My sister has an Udle the Noodle, but I really want a Fraidel Knaidel.

what’s really weird is “wierd”

The maidel Fraidel Knaidel

Happy in her baby cradle

Named as such by her papa Derech

Who loves rhyming names, that Derech Hamelech

I know someone named Habivin Yisrael

Why do people name their kids weird names? Its mamish assur as it makes them objects of ridicule. (I saw it in a halacha Sefer)

My cousin had a grandmother named “Gela Beechel”. She says it’s “yellow pages”:)(Yiddish)

Absolutely, WIY. Which is why she didn’t name any of her kids that.:)

I know an Aron Aron and an Aryeh Aryeh

How about

Abraham Abrahams

Dovid Ben Yshai

Aharon Ohevshalom

Isaac Isaacs

Israel Israel

Fishel Fisch

Shalom Shalom

Nissan Nissan

Wolf Wolf

Yom Tov Cantor

Shoshana Rose

Chava Nagila

Binah Bar Daas

Dvora Stinger

i know someone that named their kid blueberry after hi smother cuz she used to make very good blueberry muffins

The Iranians have interesting names like Aharon Kohengadol. Then there’s the famous Georgian last name Olamnivrabishvili

Theres a girl named Cookie and a guy named Bunny both legally named after their grandparents nicknames. Oh, and I know of Israel Israel too. Theres also the persian name Gamzuletovah. I also have an uncle Tony (he’s jewish, not a convert). Also I have a cousins named Fortune, and Madeline.

How about the boy whose name is Sholom but his english name is Oliver

issur giyora- that is so freakin funny i hope she has another name than meth when she has to write her english name

My Father’s physician was Dr. Doctor

i know a kid Kayla rochel when she says it fast sounds like Kever rochel

someone named their kid hitler.(not the original one)

i know someone who everyone calls “Chicky” because her father called her a chicky when she was a baby.

i know someone who calls their kids Tony [short o sound] and ella, instead of netan-el and rephaella- just interesting

LOL in Sem we had a kid her name was Perl Aron. The first day of sem the teacher mistakenly called her Aron Perl. (He he)

I knew this guy Simantov, wonder why they didn’t add MazelTov!

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So what your saying is that many people named Scharf are not so sharp, so then many people named Weiss are kinda dark.

This makes me kinda wonder if many people named Reich are not so wealthy? Those named Schwartz, I understand, as well as Feffer

and Zaltz.

But what really makes me nervous is what are most people named Kugel, or even scarier Whiteman? Black Women? I don’t know anymore.

uneeq- don’t forget about keke 🙂 [also grandmother’s nickname]

The goyish neighborhood where my folks grew up there was a non jewish family and they were WEIRD. Each child was named after a kitchen utensil like spoon, fork, cup.

And whats really weird is that this was a couple who were from the older conservative generation and raising their kids in the 1960’s and 70’s, right?, so like (before the scene turned liberal in naming babies). I wonder what their kids named the next generation of their grandchildren. Maybe they went on to the bathroom items. Toilet, faucet?

Well I have a personal confession, I once wanted to name one of my kids amyetheyst or cloud or rainbow or morning star. But I am thankful that I didn’t. …oh ..and so is she!

Some communities that use Simantov as a male name also use Mazaltov but as a female name.

Sometimes, the clerks who gave the famous four surnames of Gross, Klein, Weiss and Schwartz to Jews throughout the historical Austro-Hungarian Empire davka assigned them to people in a way that was mocking. This was just as much a way to attempt to solicit a bribe as it was anti-Semitism.

oh we had a blackskinned busdriver who’s last name was Mrs. Black, and she showed us her driver’s license and her last name used to be white!