Yael?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s unique but maybe too much.
Your DC would have to forever answer “How do you say your name?”

This happens no matter what your name is.

— signed Sara (who has to correct people’s pronunciation at least half the time)

No, I disagree. From a highly educated perspective (and someone who reads a lot, especially Jewish mysticism), I love the name, just like I love the name Avi. However, would I name my kid it? No, because most people won't know what it means, how to pronounce it and my kid would be forever correcting people that it's not Yale. You have to make the decision from the kid's perspective. Remember Endeavour Morse. Just because his mom was Quaker and wanted a "character" name meant he was forever humiliated, especially when in service to his country. Don't do it.

Endeavor Morse is a fictional character! Many fictional characters have weird names and were not humiliated. But I don’t think it has any bearing on whether you should name your kid Yael.

It doesn’t seem like a very strange name to me, maybe bc I’m a millenial and remember this song from the apple commercial: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic_BQ6g2hp0 I’m also not bothered by the prospect of a name being mispronounced or misspelled.

[Anonymous]

I like it and fwiw don’t know too many Yael’s in Fairfax county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s unique but maybe too much.
Your DC would have to forever answer “How do you say your name?”

This happens no matter what your name is.

— signed Sara (who has to correct people’s pronunciation at least half the time)

No, I disagree. From a highly educated perspective (and someone who reads a lot, especially Jewish mysticism), I love the name, just like I love the name Avi. However, would I name my kid it? No, because most people won't know what it means, how to pronounce it and my kid would be forever correcting people that it's not Yale. You have to make the decision from the kid's perspective. Remember Endeavour Morse. Just because his mom was Quaker and wanted a "character" name meant he was forever humiliated, especially when in service to his country. Don't do it.

Endeavor Morse is a fictional character! Many fictional characters have weird names and were not humiliated. But I don’t think it has any bearing on whether you should name your kid Yael.

Not to mention, that if you’ve read many of the Morse novels, the author was clearly trying to create the ultimate woobie, so of course his name sucked for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s unique but maybe too much.
Your DC would have to forever answer “How do you say your name?”

This happens no matter what your name is.

— signed Sara (who has to correct people’s pronunciation at least half the time)

No, I disagree. From a highly educated perspective (and someone who reads a lot, especially Jewish mysticism), I love the name, just like I love the name Avi. However, would I name my kid it? No, because most people won't know what it means, how to pronounce it and my kid would be forever correcting people that it's not Yale. You have to make the decision from the kid's perspective. Remember Endeavour Morse. Just because his mom was Quaker and wanted a "character" name meant he was forever humiliated, especially when in service to his country. Don't do it.

Endeavor Morse is a fictional character! Many fictional characters have weird names and were not humiliated. But I don’t think it has any bearing on whether you should name your kid Yael.


Duh! Of course he’s fictional. I can draw only from real life? I can rattle off at least twenty friends whose names aren’t have imposed difficult names on their kids who hated them. Try C. S. Lewis for starters. Yael (which autocorrects by the way so a non-starter) is far worse than Clive.

[Anonymous]

I’m not Jewish. I think it’s a beautiful name, fwiw.

My DD has a “foreign” name that’s even less common than Yael. She gently educates anyone who doesn’t pronounce it correctly. She enjoys having a name that’s a bit different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s unique but maybe too much.
Your DC would have to forever answer “How do you say your name?”

This happens no matter what your name is.

— signed Sara (who has to correct people’s pronunciation at least half the time)

And seriously, you pronounce your name once and people catch on. I can’t believe posters think it’s such a hardship! And the vast majority of people one encounters hear your name from you first in introduction.

-signed, Mairead.

[Anonymous]

It’s one of the names of a star from love island so I probably wouldn’t use it for a few years!

[Anonymous]

I love the name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work with a woman named Yael. No one pronounces her name correctly. People just struggle with a syllable break between vowels, I think.

Fwiw, I live in DC and I know a fair amount of Jewish people, but I hadn’t met anyone named Yael before I met my coworker. And given how my other coworkers struggle with the pronunciation, I don’t know that many people that are not Jewish are very familiar with the name.

+1. Heck, I am Jewish and know how to pronounce it, but I have never met a Yael. It seems really popular on DCUM though, gets suggested all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s unique but maybe too much.
Your DC would have to forever answer “How do you say your name?”

This happens no matter what your name is.

— signed Sara (who has to correct people’s pronunciation at least half the time)

And seriously, you pronounce your name once and people catch on. I can’t believe posters think it’s such a hardship! And the vast majority of people one encounters hear your name from you first in introduction.

-signed, Mairead.

+1

I’m a foreigner. My name is extremely common in my native country, and “try hard” in USA. I like the second option better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s unique but maybe too much.
Your DC would have to forever answer “How do you say your name?”

This happens no matter what your name is.

— signed Sara (who has to correct people’s pronunciation at least half the time)

And seriously, you pronounce your name once and people catch on. I can’t believe posters think it’s such a hardship! And the vast majority of people one encounters hear your name from you first in introduction.

-signed, Mairead.

Ugh, I like Mairead for my DD, but husband veto'd it because, you guessed it - too hard for people to pronounce! I disagreed - Mairead, rhymes with parade. Super simple.

[Anonymous]

I love it. Especially for a Zionist!