# How did some first names come to be stereotypically "Jewish?"

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**Created:** [February 19, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-some-first-names-come-to-be-stereotypically-jewish/345144 "2006-02-19T01:28:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-some-first-names-come-to-be-stereotypically-jewish/345144/21 "2006-02-20T14:47:06Z")

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Interesting too that Sydney is popular for girls of various backgrounds as far as I know.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-some-first-names-come-to-be-stereotypically-jewish/345144/22 "2006-02-20T20:39:31Z")

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> [@edwino](#):
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> And of course there are all of those attributed cases of names being reassigned at immigration entrance points by pointing to names at random out of the New York phonebook…

[More myth than fact.](http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/articles/NameEssay.html)

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