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.

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.

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.

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)

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.