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Posted: Dec 4, 2011
Feminine name
Although I am known as jack, my legal given name is Jacqueline. Lots of family stories as to why but I have always been convinced it was because of my five older brothers and a mom who wanted a daughter.
Posted By Jack W , Chicago
Posted: Dec 19, 2009
a feminine spelling
I was named after a woman that helped my mother while my father was off to war. Although the name is gender neutral, the spelling was not. My given name is Terri, however I am a male. I was lucky in one way; the woman's name was really Teresa.
Posted By Anonymous, Ft Worth, TX
Posted: Jan 6, 2009
Names are very important
I was given a name that was after another female, but it is a male name. At least it has a male spelling. I would like to get a Jewish name that means the same as the name I was given.
Among the Jewish life cycle events, naming a child is uniquely important, for throughout his life, his Jewish name defines his identity at every waking and sleeping moment. It is by his Jewish name that a person is remembered and memorialized after a hundred and twenty years.
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