It depends
Ari Vatanen is a Finnish rally driver, his name is Finnish, not Jewish Koen is Dutch version of Conrad, koenrad, Koen It all is about how seriously you take this I know someone called Marika |
Eidel is on the unusual side How about Eileen |
I know a woman named Lael. Mid 40s, Caucasian. I have no idea if she’s Jewish. |
Eidel is actually pronounced Aydl, like Edelweiss. I would spell it Edel or Adel, because your daughter is going to have a lifetime of people mispronouncing it. |
Edith |
How about Ada or Ava? |
Actually, there’s a girl with a strikingly similar name (first name Uber Irish, last name Uber Jewish) in the NoVa area. Family is Jewish (both parents). They just liked the Irish name. I doubt she’s the only one on the planet. |
No, the name is not pronounced the same as "Yale" ( as in Yale University); it is pronounced "YA-EL" meaning "with G-d". Sheesh, talk about misinformed. This is why non-Jews should not use Hebrew names. |
Yael is a traditional female name. I do not know of any Jewish men named Yael. Lael is not a hebrew name. Not sure what it is. |
Haha. Apparently there is one dumb quasi celebrity who pronounces her name Yale. |
PP Jewish person who thinks it's weird when non-Jews use Jewish names: I roll my eyes at all the Irish-named non-Irish children. There are just so many of them that at some point I've come to accept: people just like Irish names. It seems like among a certain group of kids born in the 2000s, Irish names are neutral of cultural association. Funny enough, I have some kids in my life who were born to parents who are a mix of Portuguese, German, Puerto Rican, and Jewish - and all of those kids have very Irish names. What can you do. If Jewish names headed in that direction - stripped of cultural association or meaning - I'd be weirded out, I think. But, hey, maybe it would also lead to less anti-semitism - and we'd all take that, nu? What do Irish people - whether from Ireland or just family history - think pf Irish names being so popular? |
If I met a kid named Edel or Adel - both very pretty! - I'd think they had a German background, not necessarily Jewish. |
True of most Yiddish names, since Yiddish is a German dialect. |
I think there's a difference between very culturally Irish-Catholic/American Irish names like Patrick, Francis, and Mary Catherine; and names that are Irish but not common in the US, like Aoife, Nuala, and Seamus. For the former -- yeah, I would be a bit weirded out to meed a Jewish Francis Xavier. For the latter, I would think it was a little odd, but not as culturally tone-deaf. And then, some of the Irish names have also been normalized as American secular names too, like Brian, Sean, and Ryan, and now Declan and Finnian. So those seem like fair game for anyone. |
None of these are Irish names. Just saints. |