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The Kosher Top 10

Top Ten Names Popularized by the Mishaberach for Cholim
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From Fivel Menachem Mendel Leserowitz
How do the GABBAYIM on lthe way far out left coast call you all for aliyot Heydan Ben Mason? Since When is Heyden spelled Hay Daled Yud Nun? Why don't you come back East and get a real life. Maybe iof you'd do a little research you'd know why there are double names.  It all started in GERMANY.  The Assimilators, who didn't want to keep their Jewish Names only, unlike our Ancestors in Egypt, started translating thier names into German, "Yitzchok called Isaac, Menachem called Mendel", etc ( See the book Glukel of Hamln) And so was born double names where each name is a translation of the other. Shraga Fivel, Dov Ber, Lazar Wolf, Yitzchok Isaac, Shmuel Shmelke, Menachem Mendel. Oh and of course the most recent of them all Heyden Planetarium! Come back to earth and learn a little Derech Eretz

From Bernard Yadlovker
Other redundant names include: Shmuel (or Shmeel) Shmelka
Tzvi Hersh
Dov Behr
As to names with curious etymology...
Yenta or the poor girl named after her great aunt "the Alte Zona"
Heyden Graham's comment about the Brooklyner -- it's not cousinS - it's one cousin with ALL those names! It takes 10 minutes to call him up for an aliya (but that's for another list)!
Great site, but you seem to be leaving out ignoring Queens. Kew (pronounced Jew) Gardens Hills, Kew Gardens, Hillcrest, Jamaica Estates... look at all the great material you're missing!

From Heather Price, Los Angeles

From shimon baum, NY
Does anyone else find it funny I guy named Heyden Graham is making fun of Jewish names.  I mean seriously the ony way his name could be more goyish was if it was jesus.

From Rachel, Md:
hey.........Pesha means sin in hebrew, but rose in yiddish (at least I think its rose, if not its some flower)

From Shani Rotkovitz, Valley Village, CA
You kids be nice.  My father's name is Yitzchak Isaac.  Yeah, at my parents wedding the Rav threw a fit so I hear, but what are you going to do.  Still digging the site and turning all my crazy LA homies onto it as well.  Keep it up!


From Heyden Graham: 
Feivel,
Shmelke,
Yiddle,
Pinchas (who names their kid Pinchas, even in Hebrew?)
Nimrod (a cruel joke against Israelis)
Perla,
Zalman (only allowed when naming after someone three or more generations older than the child; "He's named after his Great-great uncle Zalman)
Fishel
Leib
Raysel
Velvel
Zelig
Chasya
Shayndel
Berl

Now, I bet that there is some Brooklyner who has cousins named all of
these names.  Meanwhile, those of us from LA have cousins named Evann
(F), Mason (M), Ryan Paige (F), and Carter (M).  Not counting their
friends named Maxx (F) (not short for Maxine), and Brooke.