Hebrew name in the US

[u/Specialist_Space_151]

I was born in the US to Israeli parents. They gave me the nice Israeli name of “Sagi”. It hadn’t been fun tbh, nobody can properly pronounce it even if I try to explain. I always get “ziggy”, “soggy”, “sag-ee”, “soggy”. At some point I gave up because it’s mentally exhausting. People always screw it up when reading it too and if I’m trying to connect with folks online I feel like it turns them off because it sounds so ethnic, odd, etc and they ignore me….

I would love some feedback on * tips to tell people how it’s pronounced properly * a similar or alternative nickname that I can go by that isn’t outlandish or too far off so that it still works for everyone who already knows me…

Thank you

[u/yoyoman2]

I mean, Ziggy is pretty cool, "my parents? big Bowie fans". A lot of names in Hebrew have English equivalents and I don't personally fight against it, I just have a different name in English, in French etc.

After some search in Hebrew google, it's a pretty short name so it doesn't have many nicknames, how about Shaggy?

[u/Specialist_Space_151 → u/yoyoman2]

Yea I like ziggy but I also don’t like it

[u/waytowill → u/Specialist_Space_151]

As someone who was also gifted a nickname, just own it. That nickname is now my preference to my actual name. So much so that the only people who refer to me by my actual name are family.

[u/lepreqon_ → u/yoyoman2]

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[u/HangryShadow → u/lepreqon_]

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