Most Uncommon Frum Names

Same with Yehudis, the popular Jewish-sounding name, originally of the wife of Eisav!

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I think that it is used now because of Yehudis who did away with Holofernes YMS and possibly was originally used for girls named in memory of a Yehuda.

I once read that Nimrod became popular due to the “Canaanite” movement of the early secular Zionists. Anat is also the name of a Canaanite Avodah Zarah.

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Yes, Nimrod and names like it came from the extreme left. More obscure names such as Anat became accepted because no one bothered to check the source.

least common names male:biblical and currently heard ADAM KIHOS ZEVULUN MALKIEL KOLEV nachshon OTHER NAMES OF MOISHE RABBEINU AVIGDOR YEKUSIEL. [ AMRAM WAS THE NAME OF THE GREAT HUNGARIAN RABBI AMRAM BLUM AUTHOR OF BAIS SHEARIM.]Next era of names ;matanya siroyah yerachmiel the most uncommon name yehvee. for women most uncommon biblical osnat hadas [not hadasah] Masha is a name given for someone who wanted to give the name moshe but had a girl.shprintza originates from thespanish name espiratze which means spirit

Please don’t post the same thing more than once. – 77

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And if you find eighty boys named tzaddik, are they pay tzaddikim? Sure hope not…

Seriously, Tzaddik is a first name used among Greek Jews (Romaniotes or Sefardim, not sure which).

chavakuk, yehoshafat, tzefaniah, kalev, benshiva (sorry i had to give a response to battzion), avidan, eldad, meidad, neriah, sroya,boaz, mephiboshes,kilav, amram, gamliel, betzalel, uziel, dor, kasriel, yiftach, and osniel…all boys names!

Rivka for a man

I knew a Sroyah. I know 2 Neryas. Both are obscure nevi’im in Tanach.

I know of a lot of little girls called “sheifeleh”. It’s short for “mechasheifelah”… 🙂

Speaking of names….

Anyone know the names of Yisro’s seven daughters?

I think “Abba” is an uncommon name for a man. I only know one man named Abba. (Although, I know plenty called that by their own children. 😉 )

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Smadar & Chefzibah: Classmates

Yishai: Two friends married two Yishais

Machlah: Lives right here in town

Osnat: My niece

Deuel (one of the nesiim): Friend’s son

Matthew (Matisyahu): my nephew

Genendel: Daughter’s friend’s sister

Emanuel: Co-worker

Yachet: Relative’s middle name

Shprintza is the Yiddish word for the season Spring.

Do you mean shprinzin for spring?

In any case I think friling is more common for spring in Yiddish.

When all else fails, look it up! I just did. There are two words for Spring (the season): friling and vesne.

There are three words for spring (the kind in your pen for example): sprenzhine, sprunzhine, and spruzhine. (I don’t speak Yiddish, but since they are so similar, I’m guessing the difference is regional.)

There is also spring (source): kval, and spring (awaken etc.): oyfkumen.

this is exactly what i said in the beginning-

before i knew this, shprinze was not the kind of name I would name my daughter!

but now with this meaning maybe I would think about it…

so far I dont know of a babbe Shprinze,…

What about the name Yissachor? Not that common.

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One uncommon girl’s name: Yiska.

This was another name for Sara Imeinu.

I only know one girl with that name.

Do we know the same girl? She grew up somewhere “very out of town” (I don’t know where she lives now)

I also know someone named Yiska – it’s not THAT uncommon…

ryna

shlomtze

alter

Isn’t Alter a boy’s name, as well as a girl’s name? I know of a girls called Altie.

I know someone who had six girls and he named them

Gila

Rina

Ditzah

Chedva

Ahava

Achvah

Nathalie- I know someone who named her daughter for Nes Ali- Natalie as she had a difficult birth…

selina meyrav gila anael maria there are loads

Sedomah, I can’t believe some people name their girls Isabel

even though in english it sounds like a nice name,

though the name comes from Izebel the Rashanis. see below..

Jezebel in the 1st Book of Kings, Phoenician princess, wife of King Ahab, mother of Ahaziah, Jehoram, & Athaliah.

She encouraged worship of Baal, including the worship of

Asherah or Asheroth & persecuted the prophets of her day.

Jezebel was the bitter foe of Elijah Elijah Elijah’s prophecy of Jezebel’s doom was fulfilled when Jehu triumphed over the house of Ahab. In Revelation, her name is applied to a false prophetess of Thyatira. “A Jezebel in common usage is a wicked woman.”

In EY, any positive character in Tanach is fair game among the RZ. Among the secular and not so secular is an alarming trend to de-gender names. I came across a couple Ro’i and Maan. Guess which was which? Tal, Shemesh Tzohar, Gal, Gil, Noam and it conjugates can be either a she or a he. And the best Jewish name I ever came across was Seboriah, belonging to my very goyish ( from the Islands) body shop guy. He had no idea and really enjoyed my interpretation.

I’ve known of probably the most odd name I’ve ever come across in my life. Way back when maybe 20 years ago when I was 6 years old approximately give or take, I used to be friends with this g’uy that lived around the corner from me his name was Melech Gibor. Who in the world names their kid mighty king? Honestly!?!?!?!

I know this is mostly about 1st names but, for an uncommon frum last name, I would have to say its McLeod. I dormed in yeshiva with a bachur who had this last name.

Sister BearMember: I heard of a girl named Berel.

Sister bear/berel….any relation?

Gosh smartcookie no it’s not me if that’s what your implying.

Otherwise, I don’t know what you’re trying to say, sorry. 🙂