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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cannot believe how invested some PPs seem to be in this discussion.  "Choose a real name someone in your family had"??[/quote]

2 scenarios:

- Why is your name Miriam?
- Because that was the name of my great grandma
- Cool

- Why is your name Tzipora? 
- My mom liked it
- But, are you Jewish?
- Well, it depends
- Depends on what?
- ...........
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-Why is your name Tzipora?
-My mom liked it.
-Cool.[/quote]

Jews by and large do not react this way.  OP needs to be aware of this.[/quote]

And how do Jews act PP? You are offensive. I'm a Jew and I wouldn't ask someone about their name. I would compliment the name but wouldn't make any assumptions. I know people with the last name "Finegold" and they aren't Jewish. Perhaps there's a Jewish male down the line but they don't know for sure.

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PP here.  That's great, I am a Jew and I would not ask someone about their name either.  Perhaps I shouldn't have worded to suggest that everyone will, because that is not what I mean.  What I mean was that it WILL happen often enough to affect her life, and OP should consider this.  Should she change her mind based on it?  Not necessarily - as I said before, I would have loved to get a name like that.  But how is it offensive to describe my life experience, which was constantly to be questioned on my name and appearance?  BTW, this will depend on the circles OP runs in, if OP runs largely outside the Jewish community it will be much less of a big deal.  I was raised pretty secular and celebrating all the holidays (my parents are basically unitarian in their observance) and it didn't actually become an issue for me until I started getting more into Jewish stuff in high school.

Honestly, the only point is, and I am certainly not intending to offend anyone by it - since you asked for opinions, you are getting several asking you to please consider the full implications of a name before giving it.  And if it provokes some more thought in the whole "what does being marginally Jewish mean," that's great.  [/quote]

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