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using mostly the BtN Hebrew lists, the

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Feminine names i like:

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Abigail, Adara, Ahava, Aliyah, Atalia, Ayelet
Eliana, Elisheva
Ilana
Jael (but i hate it when ppl pron. it jay-el) so maybe we'll say Yael (even though i like the sp of Jael better)
Keren, Keshet
Lior(a)
Michal, Martha (my name! ok it's Aramaic, but i'm gonna count it)
Noa
Rachel (prefer sp. Rachael)
Shifra, Shira, Shiri, Shoshana (is growing on me)
Tahlia (is okay), Tova (ditto)

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Masculine names i like:
Adam, Amir, Ariel (only pron. ah-ree-EL not AIR-ee-el), Asher
Daniel, David
Elisha (is okay. i saw a little girl with this name, pron. like Alicia, and it annoyed me. i figured her parents weren't aware that that spelling is actually a boy's name) Emmanuel, Eran
Gabriel
Ilan
Jonathan
Lev
Mikha'el/Mikhael, Micah, Michael
Reuben (is growing on me), Ronen (is okay)
Shai
Simon
Tal
Yarden
Yishai

Naturally, some of these are stronger likes and some are kinda likes... and there are plenty of names w/ Hebr. roots and variants in other languages that I like.

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Josiah
Y'shua
Jonathan
John itself isn't that exciting, but I like some of its variations- both male and female
Naomi
Deborah / Devorah
Jael
Ruth I suppose would be technically Moabite, but adopted into Hebr.
Hadassah
Zipporah
Malachi
Aviva
Mayim
Shoshannah (and some variants)
Tehilah
Jesse
Yiskah looks kinda cool
Levi
Judah
Rachel itself doesn't excite me, but I like some of its variants
Jerusha
Abigail
Elizabeth and some of its variants
Benjamin
Raphael
Gabriel
Rueben
Samuel
David (when prn'd the Hebr. way rather than the En. way)
variants of Mattityahu
Ezra
Ezekiel
Noah
Daniel
Solomon
Simon
Hezekiah
Nethanel- variant- Nathanael
Israel
Isaac
Aviram / Abraham
Lavi
Baruch

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I'm not an expert so double check these. But I do love:

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Hadassah
Mayim
Lior
Havilah
Miriam
Navit ("nah-VEET")
Eliana
Yael
Tovah
Margalit
Marganit (kind of flower)
Noa
Tirzah
Vered
Elisheva
Keziah
Hepzibah
Kinneret
Marni
Jocheved / Yocheved

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ETA male names:

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Baruch
Malachi
Zvi
Moishe
Avram (nn Avi, "AH-vee," I know one)
Israel
Liev
Ziya
Josiah
Mendel
Hiram
Ezra
Gabriel
Asa
Nathaniel
Elijah
Gideon
Jeremiah
Ishmael
Japheth
Zachariah
Isaac / Itzhak
Meir
Seth
Joachim
Mordecai / Mordechai
Alon

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I also love Jasper / Casper, Balthazar and Melchior. But I have a sinking feeling they are more Biblical than Hebrew.

This message was edited 3/6/2012, 5:24 PM