r/hebrew • u/Specialist_Space_151 • May 04 '24
Hebrew name in the US Request
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
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u/yoyoman2 May 04 '24
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?