okay this is kind of a different vibe but khadija, abdel, and jamal ?? chef’s kiss
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Part 2
Hello I’m trying to pair English names with Hebrew names. While Hebrew names don’t necessarily need to correspond with English names, these children would be raised in Israel and probably called their Hebrew names by most people there but their English names by friends and family in the US and I’d like to make it not TOO confusing for them.
Poll 1: vote for all the names you like regardless if you think they’d be too complicated / not work well as English/Hebrew names
meanings of the Hebrew name are in parentheses
- Isadora /// Tzipporah (bird)
- Fern /// Frida/Frayda (joy)
- June /// Gefen (vine)
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Poll 2: Vote based NOT on which names you like but on which ones are not TOO confusing, or generally make sense if this child is to be called by both names
- Isadora /// Tzipporah (bird)
- Fern /// Frida/Frayda (joy)
- June /// Gefen (vine)
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would eva (EE-vuh) be mispronounced as AY-vuh (like ava)?
- yes, always
- yes, often but not always
- yes, but only sometimes
- yes, but rarely
- no
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also !! your favorites for my current crushes …
- ruthie
- margo
- piper (g)
- sophie
- eva
- etta
- nell
- lou (g)
- wendy
- alma
- hank
- max (b)
- milo
- grey (b)
- ivo
- theo
- august
- teddy
- albie
- sol
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I voted for ‘yes, but rarely’ because I know that ay-vuh is an existing pronunciation that some people may use, even though I haven’t ever encountered it (only ee-vuh or eh-vuh)
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I actually was super close to putting [name_m]Jamal[/name_m] on the list but it felt more like a little bro than big bro? if that makes sense?
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The only [name_f]Eva[/name_f] I ever knew said it like [name_f]Ava[/name_f]. I’d always guess ee-va because I much prefer that pronunciation to [name_f]Ava[/name_f] but I wonder if people would default to [name_f]Ava[/name_f] because it’s a more common name.
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To honour a K@thleen
- Katherine
- Catherine
- Elaine
- Lena (Lee-nuh)
- Kit
- Helen
- Thea
- Athena
- Leah
- Hattie
- Hallie
- Nell
- Kelly
- Ellen
- Thalia
- Lee
- Tilly
- Anne
- Annie
- I have a suggestion!
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If I wanted to honour someone born in December, then I could use…
- Their name
- December (As a name itself)
- Holly
- Winter
- Snow
- Mimi
- Celia
- Emmeline
- Deborah
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[name_f]Kate[/name_f]
Kallie/Callie
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- kit rafael
- … but spelt raphael
- rafa kit
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- teddy november
- teddy hopewell
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- max willow
- misha willow
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ty!
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f in the chat for all the error messages it took to get to this thread and make these polls
how am I supposed to decide? vote your favorites of my current short et/ed girl names
- Edith
- Edie
- Etta
- Ethel
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the narrowing continues (even though I’ll probably keep both on my list because taking them off feels cruel)
- Tess
- Bess
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I really love names like Ethel, Edith, Helen, Irene, Marnie, Imogene, and Dorothy in this “new school revitalization aren’t Grandma name the best?” way but Gladys feels like a GP – does she fit with the group or is Gladys too far gone?
- Team Baby Gladys
- We aren’t ready
- I’m not personally ready for Gladys but I’m not ready for Ethel either and I don’t really see a difference between them so I guess I’m team Gladys for you
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and finally: favorites of my current contestants battling to make their way onto The List
- Fritz
- Ivo
- Wilbur
- Alfie
- Marnie
- Ginny
- Estelle
- Oona
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Kat!!
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Name sightings…
- Everett
- Edith
- Verlin
- Betty
- Robert
- Donald
- Charles
- Raymond
- Virginia
- Pauline
- Cecile-Eleanor
- Leona
- Lucia
- Aslan
- Alfred
- Spark (b)
- Indie (g)
- Tallulah
- Hillie
- Ira (g)
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F 
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team “i’m not team baby gladys but i see why someone else could like it and maybe it could grow on me, and also not team ethel but definitely team edith, helen, irene, marnie, imogene, and dorothy!!”
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I prefer mine in all lowercase, but for other people I honestly have no preference!
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is atticus jeremiah too to kill a mockingbird??
- yes, it would be a problem
- yes, but it should be fine
- no it’s totally fine
- other
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if you were named atticus jeremiah, would you go by aj?
- yes of course
- no i like atticus
- maybe just to my closest friends
- other
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can an atticus jeremiah go by jj?
- yes that would work
- yes, but it would be a stretch
- no that couldn’t work
- other
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what would you name a twin brother to atticus?
- florian
- caspian
- nicholas
- banks
- ross
- spencer
- felix
- laurence
- derek
- i have another idea (@ me)
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- winifred rejoice “winnie joy”
- charlotte rejoice “lottie joy”
- mary rejoice “mary joy”
- frances rejoice “frankie joy”
- edith rejoice “edie joy”
- lucy rejoice “lucy joy”
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- joy works for rejoice
- joy works for rejoice, but only as a FN (not in these combos)
- joy works for rejoice, but just joy would be better
- joy does not work for rejoice
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For a story I have a character names [name_m]Atticus[/name_m] and for his bro I actually considered [name_u]Florian[/name_u], [name_u]Banks[/name_u] and [name_u]Laurence[/name_u]! I ended up going with [name_m]Hugo[/name_m] but I think those go really well with [name_m]Atticus[/name_m] too!
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Which name feels the most “summery” to you?
- Maxwell
- Maxence
- Both have an equal amount of summery-ness
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Neither tbh
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