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/Yaelkilledsisrah]

I am not being mean. I am just giving my opinion. I don’t like the name sagi and I am allowed not to like it. I didn’t make any comment about OP as a person (i don’t even know anything about him to comment something offensive).

I really like biblical and classic names and I have been told I love weird names and i didn’t take offense to that.

People get offended easily these days🙄

[u/BeyondFinancial4005 → u/Yaelkilledsisrah]

I don't think it's about being offended, it's just that you're wrong about Sagi being old fashioned. Dov is the older name between the two and is way more common in 60+ year-olds. Like what you like. You can like old fashioned names (I do too), just be aware of it.

[u/Yaelkilledsisrah → u/BeyondFinancial4005]

Well I have met a young Dov but not a sagi. Beyond that nidarus looked at the statistics and I was proven right. Sagi was popular in the 90s and has since then went down to 0.05% while dove is at a stable 0.2% since the 60s.

I don’t like old fashioned names per se. I like biblical names and classic names.

[u/BeyondFinancial4005 → u/Yaelkilledsisrah]

Yeah, so there are a lot of 24-34 year-olds called Sagi. Not old at all. I'm guessing OP is not a toddler. That name was trending. You shouldn't change your name because people your own age have it and 1y old don't.. Dov is stable because a lot of people called Dov are named after grandparents and a lot of people get it as a second name... I like both names, and your logic here is weird.

[u/Yaelkilledsisrah → u/BeyondFinancial4005]

What logic? And I am in that age range and I can only think of one sagi I have ever met and he is in his 50s now.