[Avodah] names

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

Some thoughts from the book of Snerb on "Vayetze"

There is no one in Tanach names Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov or Moshe
 outside of the Avot.
Even in the Gemara Avraham Yaakov, Moshe don't appear but Yitzchak does
appear,

trvia question

1) Give names that appear at least twice in Tanach

One name appears for 16 people - which name?
Some others appeaer 5,6,7,8,9,10 times

Even with these repetitions the percentage is much less than what appears
with modern names.
Most names in Tanach appear only for one person (over 50%).
Given equal total numbers in modern society it is unlikely to find a name
that appears only once.

In Britain in the 1800s 20% of the boys were named John and 25% of the
girls Mary

2) Give names of people in Tanach named after some ancestor



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Eli Turkel
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