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If you could have picked your own name, what would it be?
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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 665138" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Nerfherder -</p><p></p><p>You are 100% correct. Sephardim do name after the living. Ironically, although I have lived in the NY area my entire life, I know relatively few Sephardim. Sometimes, I think H, an Irish Catholic, would've been happier if I had been S. For years, he persisted in telling a Sephardic friend of his that our oldest son was Hebrew named after the friend. He is NOT. Why would I name my child after a living person whom I didn't even know? He also told his cousin that our son was English named after HIM, and again this was not so, even though it was the same name. Oldest boy was named after both of my grandfathers but the English name I chose is a saint name which is very commonly used in the American Jewish community because I didn't like the Hebrew name in English.</p><p></p><p>On the topic of unusual names, a friend of mine became a teacher in the 60's to avoid the draft. He had a student in his class named "Pajama," pronounced Pah-jah-may. When my friend asked the mom the origin of the name, she told him that she had seen the name in a catalog next to a picture of a pretty woman wearing a cute nightshirt! He also had a student named "Female," pronounced Feh-mah-lee!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 665138, member: 3493"] Nerfherder - You are 100% correct. Sephardim do name after the living. Ironically, although I have lived in the NY area my entire life, I know relatively few Sephardim. Sometimes, I think H, an Irish Catholic, would've been happier if I had been S. For years, he persisted in telling a Sephardic friend of his that our oldest son was Hebrew named after the friend. He is NOT. Why would I name my child after a living person whom I didn't even know? He also told his cousin that our son was English named after HIM, and again this was not so, even though it was the same name. Oldest boy was named after both of my grandfathers but the English name I chose is a saint name which is very commonly used in the American Jewish community because I didn't like the Hebrew name in English. On the topic of unusual names, a friend of mine became a teacher in the 60's to avoid the draft. He had a student in his class named "Pajama," pronounced Pah-jah-may. When my friend asked the mom the origin of the name, she told him that she had seen the name in a catalog next to a picture of a pretty woman wearing a cute nightshirt! He also had a student named "Female," pronounced Feh-mah-lee! [/QUOTE]
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