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HelpRe: 20 Questions Every Baby Namer Should Ask
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1. Usually plain. But I like fancy names like Jekuthiel and Elhanan.
2. Usually past. I'm not a very future-faced person, and would rather delve into old tomes.
3. Fast. You shouldn't be a professor or a clergyman to understand a kid's name.
4. Always a story. Usually a biblical, talmudic, or family story.
5. I don't find rare names to be "attractive" just because they're rare, so I'd rather find an attractive name, doesn't matter if it's rare or not.
6. I hate names that were forged out of thin air (or thin letters and words) on the spot, so traditional it is.
7. Unless it's been used by my ancestors, I would only use Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino or Judeo-Aramaic names.
8. Definitely flows off the tongue with the surname attached.
9. Always easy. I suffer from a heavy russian-empire surname, so I'll try to keep my childrens' names light.
10. Always a name that's related, at least vaguely, to my family or heritage.
11. usually 2-3 syllables.
12. Gender distinct for most of them.
13. I don't really like nicknames for most names.
14. I like names that seem respectable, ones that you wouldn't be surprised to find on an aging professor.
15. I'm an elitist, so I'd naturally pick aristocrat, but the westernizing wanna-be-french-or-american higher class here in Israel is not good with names, and neither is the lower class which also gives more english/western names because they wanna be associated with the higher class. But overall, Aristocrat.
16. I like names that used to be popular, but have become rarer.
17. always old.
18. Respected. I want the name to make you feel like you have an army marshall in the room (despite being very anti-militaristic myself.)
19.My family has always been on the nerdy side, and so am I.
20. Always loud.
2. Usually past. I'm not a very future-faced person, and would rather delve into old tomes.
3. Fast. You shouldn't be a professor or a clergyman to understand a kid's name.
4. Always a story. Usually a biblical, talmudic, or family story.
5. I don't find rare names to be "attractive" just because they're rare, so I'd rather find an attractive name, doesn't matter if it's rare or not.
6. I hate names that were forged out of thin air (or thin letters and words) on the spot, so traditional it is.
7. Unless it's been used by my ancestors, I would only use Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino or Judeo-Aramaic names.
8. Definitely flows off the tongue with the surname attached.
9. Always easy. I suffer from a heavy russian-empire surname, so I'll try to keep my childrens' names light.
10. Always a name that's related, at least vaguely, to my family or heritage.
11. usually 2-3 syllables.
12. Gender distinct for most of them.
13. I don't really like nicknames for most names.
14. I like names that seem respectable, ones that you wouldn't be surprised to find on an aging professor.
15. I'm an elitist, so I'd naturally pick aristocrat, but the westernizing wanna-be-french-or-american higher class here in Israel is not good with names, and neither is the lower class which also gives more english/western names because they wanna be associated with the higher class. But overall, Aristocrat.
16. I like names that used to be popular, but have become rarer.
17. always old.
18. Respected. I want the name to make you feel like you have an army marshall in the room (despite being very anti-militaristic myself.)
19.My family has always been on the nerdy side, and so am I.
20. Always loud.
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