I’m Jewish and have always lived in very Jewish areas and environments. However at work, I know a yael, and everyone calls her “Yale” or somehow butchers her name.

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all would really say Nadav as nay-dave? Truly bizarre.

Only thing bizarre is naming your kids nay dave.

Where on earth do you get the "nay". It's clearly "Nah Dav" What kind of moron losers from southern Maryland are you that you'd mispronounce this Neigh-dave? Idiots, idiots, idiots.

This made me giggle.

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all would really say Nadav as nay-dave? Truly bizarre.

Only thing bizarre is naming your kids nay dave.

Where on earth do you get the "nay". It's clearly "Nah Dav" What kind of moron losers from southern Maryland are you that you'd mispronounce this Neigh-dave? Idiots, idiots, idiots.

What's your problem?

Love adina

Anonymous wrote:1) Nah-dahv and see-vaan?

2) No.

I know a Sivan from Israel. She pronounces it See-vaan. I would say nah-dahv too.

As an Indian woman, I would say choose the name that you loves the best and teach your children to correct others. 95% of people WANT to pronounce my name correctly. The others will continue to call me Ann-jaaaal-lee with their grating nasally voices or try to make it sound French with Awn-zha-lay, but whatever.


*It's un-juh-lee FWIW, Kay-rain.

I think all of those names are lovely, and you should go with you like best.

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all would really say Nadav as nay-dave? Truly bizarre.

Yes. I'm used to names having the emphasis on the first syllable. Not bizarre, just not used to Israeli names or Hebrew pronunciation. I'd say it correctly once somebody taught me.

Then you should pronounced it NAH-dav. STOOOOOOOOPID. What's your name? Jenny? Proncouned Jay-nay-nay???

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all would really say Nadav as nay-dave? Truly bizarre.

Only thing bizarre is naming your kids nay dave.

Where on earth do you get the "nay". It's clearly "Nah Dav" What kind of moron losers from southern Maryland are you that you'd mispronounce this Neigh-dave? Idiots, idiots, idiots.

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Anonymous wrote:Nay dave

Really?

That’s what I’d say if I saw it.

Well you're clearly an idiot. Is your name Barb or Karen?

People here are being obtuse on purpose.

Nadav = Nah-dad exactly how it's spelled.

Maytal - either My-tahl or May-tahl

Adina - Ah-dee-nah or Uh-dee-nah

Sivan - Shih-von or Sih-von

When I was in high school/junior high school, I had many Jewish classmates.

In eight grade, I think, I learned that they also had Hebrew names. I guess that’s because that year, they were preparing their bat mitzvah.

For some reason, we started using the Hebrew names to address/refer to our friends, out of friendship and maybe because we were also excited about the milestone they were approaching.

This was many years ago. It is interesting to see that today, Jewish families are choosing Hebrew names as the “official“ name.

Mazel Tov, OP!

I'm Jewish and gave my son a Jewish/ Hebrew name. Like another poster suggested, I shied away from anything with a ch or really not phonetic.in English. I just met another baby with the same name and another Jewish friend was just theorizing that Jews of our generation using more Hebrew names seems to be a trend, so our children's peers may be used to it I think all your names are lovely and none strike me as hard to pronounce for Americans. I do have a challenging last name, which is fairly annoying, and would avoid a truly challenging first name for that reason. I also went with a more anglicized middle name so if my son takes a different direction in life he can just use that.

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Anonymous wrote:1) Nah-dahv and see-vaan?

2) No.

Ditto. I am not Jewish and don’t have a sense of how to pronounce the names just right, but I do speak two foreign languages and can make an educated guess. Sivan is beautiful, by the way.

+1. Looks like I might pronounce Maytal incorrectly though. My first instinct was to pronounce it Mai-tal not May-tal. I'd just need to here it once though, not a big deal.

Anonymous wrote:1) Nah-dahv and see-vaan?

2) No.

Ditto. I am not Jewish and don’t have a sense of how to pronounce the names just right, but I do speak two foreign languages and can make an educated guess. Sivan is beautiful, by the way.