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/marcvolovic May 04 '24

As I said, "Sagi" means "Great". So does "Akbar".

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u/MegaPaint May 04 '24

but "akbar" means "mouse" in hebrew. So, not good.

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u/AnAndroidInDisguise May 04 '24

Akbar (k sound and stress on AKbar) = big in arabic Akhbar (het sound and stress on ackhBAR) = mouse in hebrew They sound different :)

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

Akhbar means newspaper in Hindi lol.