The following table has the Israeli (Hebrew) top 50 baby names for boys and for girls, from 1948-2007. Data is from the Populace Census Office, and sorted by year and rank.

The table is in Hebrew, so if you need help with the language comment here and I'll help. Additionally, if you want the name for an actual Israeli character in a real-world or ( Read more... )

Setting: Alternate universe, speculative fiction/surreal fantasy. The story is taking place in modern times ( Read more... )

Does anyone have a list (or can anyone come up with a list of) common secular names for adults in Israel? Anything I've found googling combinations of 'common Israeli names' and a year or 'by year' doesn't find much prior to 2002, and most characters who need names are in their thirties (with a few older), so I don't want to accidentally give them ( Read more... )

My sources, mostly Behind the Name, tell me that the name Moriah for girls (as opposed to for the place) is mostly just used in the US. I have two questions: one, would it be out of the question for a Israeli girl to be named that? And two, if it was used for a girl in Israel, how would it most likely be spelled in Roman letters? (I've only seen " ( Read more... )

I'm looking for endearments an Israeli woman living in the US might use for (1) children, both male and female, in her care and (2) her much younger, but now grown, sister. (She still thinks of her sister as being about twelve, so it's okay if it's something you would mostly use for children.) My problem is that none of the stuff I can find is ( Read more... )

This is a bit of a strange question. It's for a story though, and it's not exactly google-able.

I am trying to translate - or find an English equivalent of - the name of the Hebrew Atonement Day chant, ונתנה תוקף. (On Wikipedia.) It's old and weird Hebrew, and I need a translation that will both preserve the original sense (rather than, say, using ( Read more... )

Setting: Around the year 30 A.D., assorted places but predominantly the Middle East.

Searched: "aramaic names," "latin names," "hebrew names," "ancient greek names."  I've also poked around on some baby-name websites.

I'm constructing backstories for some very old characters, and I've realized that their names in modern times don't exist in the first ( Read more... )

I've been looking for a website that will give me a Hebrew version of the Torah, but in Roman (English) script, rather then in Hebrew script, as I can't read Hebrew. There seem to be several websites that do this, but only for the first few books. I need the Book of Job. this site was the only resource I could find and it's in Hebrew script ( Read more... )

How would a young girl respectfully address an adult man and woman (to whom she is not related) in Hebrew? Would it be appropriate for her to call them something equivalent to 'uncle' and 'aunt', or is there some other way she would refer to them ( Read more... )

Two unrelated scenes [mumble] that may never see the light of day, so don't try too hard on this one, just if you happen to know... [/mumble].
Both are questions of both language and cultural detail. Not sure where/how to search, so pointing me at sites/search terms (in English, please...) would be if anything more useful than actual answers.
( Japanese invocations )