Naming

[magid]

A couple I know just had their second child (mazal tov! Er, not that they read this. But anyway.). I'm somewhat baffled by the names given the offspring.

1. Jexa is...
   1. the name of a girl.
   2. the name of a boy.
   3. gender-neutral.
   4. some other option to be explained in comments.
   
   
2. Azra is...
   1. the name of a girl.
   2. the name of a boy.
   3. gender-neutral.
   4. some other option to be explained in comments.

Comments

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

a, a, from what I can find on google.

[magid.livejournal.com]

In this case, anyway, it's a, b.

[ckd]

1. D, worth a whole lot of points in Scrabble.
2. D, worth a whole lot of points in Scrabble.

[magid.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

Very true!
(Were they in the Scrabble dictionary, of course.)

[sethg]

Doesn't any Jewish couple have the balls to name their son Jor-El or Kal-El? They're perfectly respectable Hebrew names. Well, they could be.

"ya'aMOD haRav haGibor Kal-El ben Yor-el ... shvi-EEE ... chaaaa-ZAAAK!"

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't he always just get hagbah?

[(Anonymous)]

Hahahahaha, perfect!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Kal-El and chazak don't seem to go together, quite...

[cellio]

Azra makes me think of Ezra, but I can't figure out whether that should be alternate rendering or gender-flip. As for Jexa... ???

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no clue about Jexa.

It's a, b for my friends, though.

[megmuck.livejournal.com]

Have you sent these suggestions to Sarah Palin?

[magid.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

I didn't think she was on the market for new names just yet.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Palins reproduce along a curve fitted to the Fibonacci Sequence.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I thought her daughter might get to name her own kid?

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

For serious, 1. a. and 2. c. I think. But really, those are some unique names. Unique as in, I don't envy those kids in school.

[magid.livejournal.com]

For my friends, it's a, b. I don't envy them either. At least they're easily pronounced.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

1-A, 2-B, if I *must* choose. But... I'm as stumped as you are. Where does that X in Jexa come from? Are these in fact Hebrew(-derived) names?

[magid.livejournal.com]

I do not know whether the names are, in fact, Hebrew-derived, though the parents are Jewish. At least, I know for certain about the husband, and for some reason I'm assuming about the wife, though I can't actually say I know for sure.

[magid.livejournal.com]

You win! Those are, in fact, what the kids are.

[(Anonymous)]

1-a, 2-b.

Jexa sounds female (like Jena?) and Azra sounds male (like Ezra?).

Neither sounds particularly Jewish to me, and both sound complicated.

[magid.livejournal.com]

You're right on both. And I find them complicated, but obviously, the parents like them :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Azra was apparently a well-known Yugoslavian band in the 80s.

[magid.livejournal.com]

That must be the source!

[godream.livejournal.com]

First instinct says 1A, 2B verging on C. Although the more I look at 1 the less convinced I am -- I think at first it fell into the Jessica bucket in my mind somehow...

[magid.livejournal.com]

In fact, 1A and 2B are what the kids are (though I suppose with babies it's sort of impossible to say that they're C....). I wonder if Jexa came from Jessica?