Jewish baby names, in America

[Scipio]

Seigey - if you were some suburban yutz who picked out Ariel "because it sounded nice" your kid would rightly be picked on.

But when your kid says "My family is Sephardi Jewish, my grandad's name was Ariel" most kids will shut up, or the teacher will make them shut up.  This isn't 20-30 years go when we all grew up - today's kids are going to grow up with a whole range of names we were never exposed to.

Like Shithead (pronounced Shatheed), and Orangello, and Lemongello!

[Valmy]

I find it funny that you people laugh at the blacks for naming their kids Labisha or something, but then end up giving your kids names like this.

Um Gideon is a name from the Bible like 99% of other traditional names

What is so weird about it?  Because you say so?

[Malthus]

Onan 

Not a good name in Germany - his name has become (wrongly) become synonymous with masturbation.

The real biblical implication of the name is worse. 

[Malthus]

Ariel Sharon = Chick's name X 2

I can think of a lot of implications of Ariel Sharon - but "feminine" usually isn't top of the list.   

[Valmy]

I still do not get the freak out over 'Ariel' if you are in an area with Jews there are plenty of dudes named 'Ari'.  I have not noticed them being beaten anymore than the other Jews.

[Barrister]

Seigey - if you were some suburban yutz who picked out Ariel "because it sounded nice" your kid would rightly be picked on.

But when your kid says "My family is Sephardi Jewish, my grandad's name was Ariel" most kids will shut up, or the teacher will make them shut up.  This isn't 20-30 years go when we all grew up - today's kids are going to grow up with a whole range of names we were never exposed to.

Like Shithead (pronounced Shatheed), and Orangello, and Lemongello!

Well no, I was more going with the notion that kids classrooms are going to be full of Ahmed, Miguel, Abdi, and Ragesh.  Made-up stupid names will always be made-up stupid names.

[mongers]

I find it funny that you people laugh at the blacks for naming their kids Labisha or something, but then end up giving your kids names like this.

Um Gideon is a name from the Bible like 99% of other traditional names

What is so weird about it?  Because you say so?

Robert, along with a few other common traditional names aren't

[Jacob]

Grats Siegy

You should name your son Baruch; you could use an alternate spelling: Barack.

[MadImmortalMan]

Benjamin.  After http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_L._Salomon

Win.

[Neil]

Onan 

Not a good name in Germany - his name has become (wrongly) become synonymous with masturbation.

And that's insufficiently scatological for that country of perverts and weirdos?

[CountDeMoney]

Onan 

Not a good name in Germany - his name has become (wrongly) become synonymous with masturbation.

And that's insufficiently scatological for that country of perverts and weirdos?

And considering how primitively guttural the German language is, I wonder how much spittle would be thrown actually saying it.

[garbon]

BTW, I named my son Gideon.

I find it funny that you people laugh at the blacks for naming their kids Labisha or something, but then end up giving your kids names like this.

Gideon has a heritage that goes back thousands of years, and is thus exempt from the criticism of modern names like Labisha or Madison. You can say it's an ugly name, but you can't claim it's not really a name at all.

See, I don't buy this line of argument - it's like people who ridicule Mormons for having wacky beliefs but believe in zombie Jews turning water to wine only because it was a long time ago.

Weird names are weird names and have exactly the same effect on the child - whether they have been invented thousands of years ago by a shepherd eating mutton or three months ago by a post office employee eating fried chicken.

Sorry, his name never got him ridiculed. Unsure why it's bothering you. It didnt bother him.

Because children tell their parents everything?

[Maximus]

Siege, fuck the bullies and all those who accept them as normal. Name your son whatever you want and train him in the proper response to argumentum ad baculum.

[garbon]

Latin at an early age is probably a good way to ensure a beatdown.

[DontSayBanana]

Why is so hard to name a baby?
Why are jewish names so diferent here in the States?
I want to name our baby Ariel (Lion of G-d), but my wife says Ariel is a female name here in America. How the hell did this happen? How come a manly hebrew name becomes a female name? This is ridicoulus.
Then I wanted Caleb, and appearenly it sounds weird in englese. 
I don't know, man. How the hell did Ariel bacome a female name?

You want Ariel, just go with Ariel- the same thing's happened with a bunch of Gaelic and Celtic names- somewhere along the line, "Ashleigh" started showing up as the girl's name "Ashley," and "Shea" has just been flat-out co-opted.  I've still known (multiple) males with both names.