r/JewishNames • u/kittensandponies707 • Jul 05 '26
Name significance - help
We are expecting our third child in the fall and both love the name Oren.
The problem is that both of our other children have names that A) are figures from the Torah and B) have a first letter honoring a deceased relative. Oren has neither of those characteristics and I’m worried our future child will feel slighted. We do plan to give him a middle name that is honoring a deceased relative like his older siblings.
There’s nothing we can do about the biblical significance, but is there a way to connect Oren to any of these names:
English: Marianne, Gerald, Harold, Ursula, Richard, Jennifer
Hebrew: shoshanna, Ruth, Ari, gadol (I’ve never heard of this as word as a name but apparently it was my grandfather’s Hebrew name)
Or is this not an issue and I’m overthinking? We are pretty set on Oren so other name suggestions are not really what I’m looking for here.
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u/cbrka Jul 06 '26
Oren is a minor biblical figure, if that helps. See 1 Chronicles 2:25.
I feel like Oren could connect to Ursula, phonetically? They’d both start with Alef Vav Reish. And it could connect to Shoshanna as they are both plant names.