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HelpI love Jewish names. In fact, I have a closet full of them.
in reply to a message by Murasaki
Just kidding. But really.
I agree with you, Tamar is preferable to Tamara. I like it as a middle name better than a first name, mostly because it's hard for me to find something that goes well with it. With the emphasis on the second syllable, I can't seem to find anything that picks it up again and I feel like I've collapsed under the weight of too many shopping bags full of baby names. Good choice, though.
Simcha seems more masculine to me, for some reason. I know it's unisex, and usually anything that ends in an -a I see as feminine, but somehow this one slipped through. I love it as well, and I have no problem with it, but I also speak Hebrew. In the past, when I've tested out some favorites on my non-Hebrew-speaking friends (Chaya, Chava, etc), they always pronounce it with the Ch- as in "chocolate" and I end up frustrated. So, short answer, good name, but people won't get it right.
I agree with you, Tamar is preferable to Tamara. I like it as a middle name better than a first name, mostly because it's hard for me to find something that goes well with it. With the emphasis on the second syllable, I can't seem to find anything that picks it up again and I feel like I've collapsed under the weight of too many shopping bags full of baby names. Good choice, though.
Simcha seems more masculine to me, for some reason. I know it's unisex, and usually anything that ends in an -a I see as feminine, but somehow this one slipped through. I love it as well, and I have no problem with it, but I also speak Hebrew. In the past, when I've tested out some favorites on my non-Hebrew-speaking friends (Chaya, Chava, etc), they always pronounce it with the Ch- as in "chocolate" and I end up frustrated. So, short answer, good name, but people won't get it right.
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