Sippora?

Anonymous wrote:T'Lisbeth here -- my mom just loved that extra T

Do you pronounce the T in your name? Because there actually is a t sound in Tzipporah.

The name Tzipporah in Hebrew is spelled using the Hebrew alphabet: tzaddik pe vav resh he The Hebrew letter tzaddik is often transliterated into the Roman/Latin alphabet as tz. (Transliteration basically means converting from one alphabet to another alphabet.) It's pronounced like the -tz- in matzah or pretzel.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe how invested some PPs seem to be in this discussion. "Choose a real name someone in your family had"??

2 scenarios:

a)

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

b)

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

Or

-Why is your name Tzipora?
-My mom liked it.
-Cool.

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

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.

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.

I know a lovely woman named Tziporah. She is not Jewish. She has fared very well. Everyone we know can pronounce her name just fine and she's never told me she had an issue with people questioning or criticizing her name.

OP, I really prefer Tziporah for your little bird. Best of luck.

Did I miss the OP's post that explained why she didn't want to spell it the normal way, Zipporah?

Zipora looks silly. It sounds like acne medication. And people are going to say Zie-por-ah with just one p in there.

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Anonymous wrote:Op- i've decided on the z spelling. I searched "tzipora" on facebook and most of the women seem to be jewish, which according to most people on dcum apparently will be a lot of pressure on our only marginally jewish child. When i searched "zipora" a much more ethnically diverse pool of people showed up- asian, latina, black, and jewish.

So you're going with the pharmaceutical version?

OP is quite funny. She asks for feedback, but doesn't really want it. I'm done here. OP, best of luck!

Op- oh i got plenty of feedback which informed my decision. How long did u want this thread to go on?! Did u have anything else to add?

In summary:
Tzipora- hard to pronounce for lazy people, our family is not "orthodox jewish enough" and our daughter will get interrogated often by nosy people who want to know why she has such a jewish name

zipora- sounds like medication, makes people think of ziploc bags and zippers, is not spelled the anglicized biblical way

Both names- should emd in h, shiuld have double pp, is an ugly name regardless and oir daughter will hate us, we should just name our daughter rachel or something normal.

Love this - OP, you took this thread very well, congrats on your impending new arrival, I'm sure she'll be lovely.

Anonymous wrote:T'Lisbeth here -- my mom just loved that extra T

Should have been Tz'Lisbez.

T'Lisbeth here -- my mom just loved that extra T