Sephardic Names, Meanings, and their History

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Albala (al-BA-la)

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Ansara (ahn-SAH-rah)

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algerian-urdu arabic-senegalese tunisian-chilean senegalese-lebanese sudanese-nigerian boy tunisian-indonesian

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Ayala (ah-yah-lah)

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Baruch (ba-ROOK)

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Kenaan (kə-NAN)

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ashkenazi sephardic biblical israeli-hebrew jewish male boy

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Linnette (lin-ET)

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Melech (meh-lekh)

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male yiddish boy biblical sephardic jewish hebrew

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Naggar (NAH-gahr)

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Shira (SHEE-rah)

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Zipporah (zi-POHR-uh)

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