We (also) need a (Jewish) baby girl name!

Post date: 2018-04-19 19:05:11

Our baby is due in 2 weeks and we've been trying to settle on a name for 9 months! Please help!

We already have a son, named Gideon, and have rejected tons of girl names. Things we're looking for include:

* Jewish/Hebrew (We're Jewish, and kinda painted ourselves into the corner with giving our son a Biblical name).
* Not too popular.
* Not a fan of traditional names (Sarah, Ruth, etc).
* Should be fairly easy to spell (We like the name Ma'ayan, but it's out for this reason).

Complicating the matter is the fact that we want to honor some deceased family members. Our son's name is a near perfect amalgamation of his two grandfathers' names (Gil and Leon), so we thought it'd be nice to have our daughter's name be made up of her two great-grandmothers' names. They are Mina and Liza/Elizabeth.

So far the only name that fits all the criteria is Eliana. We like it ok, but aren't certain it's *the one*.

Here are some other names we have considered and more-or-less rejected:

* Mila or Milah / Amelia / Amalia (I really like Mila, but my wife says it's too Slavic; and Amelia is too popular)
* Naomi (my wife doesn't like the "ao" sound)
* Zella
* Juniper (nicknamed June...for a baby due to be born in May) (too hipster/not Jewish enough?)
* Mira (usually short for Miriam, which is not really our to our tastes)
* Medina (too Arabic?)
* Delilah (I like this one too, but the biblical connotations are unfortunate. Also, Gideon and Delilah sounds cute together.)
* Mirabel
* Margalit
* Sami (If this baby had been a boy, his name would've been Samuel, so this is us trying to work it into a girl's name.)
* Daphne
* Also, I really like the name Zelda, but my wife hates it.

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