Common baby names you dislike

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Anonymous wrote:"Bearing the surname indicates that one's patrilineal ancestors were priests in the Temple of Jerusalem"

How do you know? Did you run a bunch of DNA tests?

New poster -- Point one: It's just Jewish tradition and, in fact, in Judaism you are either a Cohen or a Levite. The reason being descent from priests or followers. Yes, there have been some DNA studies done but I have no idea what the result was.

Point two: I thought that the name Cohen came from a character in a tv show.

On The OC, they called Seth Cohen "Cohen". It was never meant to be his first name.

Also, not all Jews are Cohens or Levites, the majority are members of the general population known as "yisroel"s.

I believe the National Genographic project said that all Jews can be traced back to 2 or 4 (can't remember which) women in ancient Israel. Also, the Djembe tribe in Africa (not sure which country), always had their tribal lore stating that they were one of the lost tribes of Israel. After the project did the testing, that is where they originated from...and I *think* may have been related to the Kohanim (sp?). Fascinating stuff.

All Jews can be traced back to 4 women - namely Leah, Rachel, Bilhah and Zilpah - the 4 wives of Jacob (son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham). Those 4 women had 12 sons, who are considered the 12 tribes of Israel. One of Leah's sone is Levi - who all the Levites and Cohens are descended from. Each of the 12 tribes was assigned a piece of land in Israel. At some point in history (although I cant remember exactly when), there was a division among the tribes and 10 of the tribes were scattered and "lost". All the identifiable Jews left in the world are descendents of the 2 tribes that were not lost, as well as the Levites.

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Had a neigbor name their dd AshLynn - stripper, perhaps?

Boy in my son's daycare - Adonis. Setting his future Match.com dates up for high expectations?

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I am annoyed by the increased popularity of Irish names for 2 reasons.

1) DH is Irish, as in off the boat a few years ago. And we did want to use traditional Irish names for our kids, but it's become too trendy. FWIW, we went with a traditional Irish name for our 1st DD, but gave it an Aglican spelling so people wouldn't massacre it.

2) People are never going to pronounce traditional Irish names correctly. I know a young kid name Colm who really wants to change his name to Collin because that's what people call him. I mean I love the Aoife, if we were still living in Ireland. But who the frick in the US is going to pronounce that correctly?

Love, love, love Nora. I wanted that for a 2nd child but DH said no. Now I cannot suggest for our 3rd because we already have 2 N names (not on purpose) and I refuse to use a 3rd N.

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Anonymous wrote:I am annoyed by the increased popularity of Irish names for 2 reasons.

1) DH is Irish, as in off the boat a few years ago. And we did want to use traditional Irish names for our kids, but it's become too trendy. FWIW, we went with a traditional Irish name for our 1st DD, but gave it an Aglican spelling so people wouldn't massacre it.

2) People are never going to pronounce traditional Irish names correctly. I know a young kid name Colm who really wants to change his name to Collin because that's what people call him. I mean I love the Aoife, if we were still living in Ireland. But who the frick in the US is going to pronounce that correctly?

Love, love, love Nora. I wanted that for a 2nd child but DH said no. Now I cannot suggest for our 3rd because we already have 2 N names (not on purpose) and I refuse to use a 3rd N.

My favorite Irish name is Saoirse. Aoife is also beautiful. But you are right - destined to be massacred.

FWIW, I did not name my children Irish names. However, each of my kids is named after an ancestor, and we do have Irish ancestors. So my kids have Anglo and French names.

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My favorite names are Elsinore, Dunsinane, and Othello

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, it appears that many people do not like my cat's name. I'll try hard not to be offended.

The Laura/Nora thing got me thinking - I don't like girls' names that start with a hard 'G' sound - Gwyneth, Greta, Gretchen...all perfectly fine names, but they sound very hard to me. Nora also sounds "harder" than Laura (but not as hard as "Gora" would sound).

Funny - I love all three of those G names. I had them as options for our daughter but DH said no to them all. I'm curious about your cat's name, too...

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"All Jews can be traced back to 4 women - namely Leah, Rachel, Bilhah and Zilpah - the 4 wives of Jacob (son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham). "

Sister Wives?

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Anonymous wrote:"All Jews can be traced back to 4 women - namely Leah, Rachel, Bilhah and Zilpah - the 4 wives of Jacob (son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham). "

Sister Wives?

How did Bilhah and Zilpah lose their popularity when Leah and Rachel stayed strong?!

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it's "Gora".

I know a Gora. It's her last name.

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Anonymous wrote:"All Jews can be traced back to 4 women - namely Leah, Rachel, Bilhah and Zilpah - the 4 wives of Jacob (son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham). "

Sister Wives?

How did Bilhah and Zilpah lose their popularity when Leah and Rachel stayed strong?!

Yes, sister wives. Bilhah and Zilpah were the maid-servants/concubines.

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I know several Hermoinies under the age of 5. You can't tell me that name was due for its own comeback before Harry Potter . . .

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Wonder how many cross-posts we're going to pick up from the other thread.

Here's one: I loathe the name Tallulah. I... it... I just... ugh.

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Anonymous wrote:I know several Hermoinies under the age of 5. You can't tell me that name was due for its own comeback before Harry Potter . . .

When we lived in London, we knew lots of little girls with Shakespearean names. Maybe the HP connection popularized this one in the States.

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Sebastian, Annabelle and Esther.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, it appears that many people do not like my cat's name. I'll try hard not to be offended.

The Laura/Nora thing got me thinking - I don't like girls' names that start with a hard 'G' sound - Gwyneth, Greta, Gretchen...all perfectly fine names, but they sound very hard to me. Nora also sounds "harder" than Laura (but not as hard as "Gora" would sound).

Funny - I love all three of those G names. I had them as options for our daughter but DH said no to them all. I'm curious about your cat's name, too...

The cat's name is Jasper. Named before the Twilight craze, not that it makes a difference, since it's just a cat. And she's even a girl, which would annoy me in a human (girls being given boy names), but for pets, I can overlook a lot.