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babynamesbut apparently not. I was looking through my mom's wedding pictures, and she showed me a couple of her great aunts and uncles. Her great grandmother wanted to name her daughters biblical names, but didn't want them to sound too Jewish, so she changed a couple of letters in all of them. So, that generation of females is named:
Devorah instead of Deborah,
Yetra instead of Yetta (my great grandmother),
Elnor instead of Eleanor, and
Hasel instead of Hazel.
Apparently the boys didn't get the same treatment though, because they were named Sol, David, Julian and Raymond. Big family I guess. I kind of like Devorah.
On a relatively related note, my mother thinks all old-testament names sound way too Jewish. For instance, I quite like names like Levi, Seth, Jonah, Asher, Solomon etc. but she thinks they all sound too religious.
Devorah instead of Deborah,
Yetra instead of Yetta (my great grandmother),
Elnor instead of Eleanor, and
Hasel instead of Hazel.
Apparently the boys didn't get the same treatment though, because they were named Sol, David, Julian and Raymond. Big family I guess. I kind of like Devorah.
On a relatively related note, my mother thinks all old-testament names sound way too Jewish. For instance, I quite like names like Levi, Seth, Jonah, Asher, Solomon etc. but she thinks they all sound too religious.
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