I have no idea if this has been posted already.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

So, forgive me if this was already posted here. I just found out about it today, so I know I didn't see it here at least. Plus, I adore Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen, so I was excited to find out.

Last summer, Isla (Confessions of a Shopaholic) and Sacha (Borat), had a second baby. And they were really protective of her, so it didn't come out until a month ago that they had another daughter, and named her Elula. Elul is the twelfth month of Jewish civil year/sixth month of the Hebrew calendar, usually August/September, and Elula was born in the summer, so feminine form of her birth month?

Their first daughter is named Olive, which I had never, ever considered until whenever it was she was born and I realized how gorgeous it is. I think Elula is almost equally as lovely, a very pretty name. Plus, I think it's a very sweet way to recognize their religion and name her after her birth month; it's a lot better than just naming her August or September.

With Isla, another awesome name, I think this family is doing quite right with themselves.

WDYT?

Also, is Elula actually recognized as a feminine form of Elul, or did they just run with it themselves? I actually have no idea about Hebrew, I had to read up on everything I said in this post, lol.

Comments

[arrien.livejournal.com]

how is that pronounced?

[arrien.livejournal.com]

I keep going back and forth between EHL-you-luh and Eee-YOU-luh

Either one of those right?

[arrien.livejournal.com]

erm... Eee-LYOU-luh, I meant. Ok I will stop posting now.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I have no actual idea, but from how I've heard people pronounce Elul, I've been saying ee-loo-luh. I really hope it's not El-you-luh, but it may very well be.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I would also say ee-loo-luh.

[retrodancekitty.livejournal.com]

To me, it's el-OO-lah.

I don't like Olive and Elula together.
Elula makes me think of a severed version of Eulalia (ay-oo-LAH-lee-ah)

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I kept finding Eulalia when I was looking for Elula...I hate Eulalia. It's like uvula and labia had a word-baby or something.

[http://users.livejournal.com/--hopscotch/]

hahahaha

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Hm, I was looking it up on behindthename.com and the closest I got was Eulalia which is pronounce like "yoo-LAY-lee-ə." I actually love the sound of that, but I'm not so sure about Elula. I want to say it like "EE-loo-uh."

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I had never seen Elula on a living person, although I've had friends tell me that is a really, really old fashioned Hebrew name. I do have a friend named Nissan though (another month on the Hebrew calender) so I guess there is a precedent for it...
If I remember, they gave her two middle names. One I can't remember, but I remember not liking it, and the other was Miriam, which I do like. :)

Overall, I'm not a fan of the name, but I lovelovelove Olive. :)

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I read on Wiki that her middle names are Lottie Miriam; I would've added them, but Wiki was the only place I'd seen them, so I wasn't sure if it was even true.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Elula is, in fact, an established Hebrew/Israeli name. It is not a common one, but I did find it listed in Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana by Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran, my copy of which was published in 1999. I don't consider it to be one of my more "scholarly" name books, and it is the only one of my 10+ books that lists it, but that still means that there has been at least one Elula before Elula Baron Cohen.

That being said, for both Olive and Elula, I don't hate them but they're not names I would ever consider. I do love the name Isla though.