Everybody likes babies. Some people like unique names. An Israeli couple likes both. The couple decided not to wait for Facebook users to click on the “like” button when seeing photographs of their newborn baby girl. Instead, they pre-empted them by naming her: Like.
But Lior and Vardit Adler, from Hod Hasharon, a town north-east of Tel Aviv, went a step further to ensure their child would not have namesakes in her classroom.
“To me it is important to give my children names that are not used anywhere else, at least not in Israel,” the father told the German Press Agency dpa on Monday.
The couple gave unique names to their first two children too, perhaps for their love of cooking: Dvash (honey in Hebrew) and Pie.
When they chose the name Like, the sound was at least as important as the meaning, explained Lior.
Like had a nice and international ring to it, he said, and Facebook had become the icon of today’s generation.
“If once people gave Biblical names and that was the icon, then today this is one of the most famous icons in the world,” he said, joking that the name could be seen as a modern version of the traditional Jewish name Ahuva, which means “beloved.”
Although his and his wife’s parents had expected an original name, the couple’s friends and acquaintances reacted incredulously. “They simply didn’t believe it,” said Lior.
“I believe there will be people who will lift a eyebrow,” he said, “but it is my girl and that’s what’s fun about it.”
Will one-week-old Like like her name too? Lior said he hoped so.
“By the way, I asked her, but she wouldn’t answer,” he laughed.
{Haaretz/Matzav.com}
For once – just once! – words fail me.
Her siblings are soon to be called “delete” and “control-reset”.
as many have said facebook really needs a dislike button
They should be zoche to be hozer betshuva with all of Am Yisrael
Ponymayish
baby like should take nikama on her parents and call herself likala or better yet lykie
#2 & #3 you made my day!
and…”delete” and “control-reset” will be followed by…”LOL”!!!
Facebook is the Yetzer Hara. Mashiach is being delayed because Frum Yidden are there.
hashem yerachem. When will we wake up?
Matzav, you are a frum website? Fight Facebook! Don’t embrace it and report on it and not let comments against it through.
Hashem Yerachem.
What about naming her FAIL?
As crazy as this sounds, it’s a lot better than popular Israeli names like Nimrod…
comment to “Shalom” number 9.
Your yetzer hara is running amok. Facebook is G-ds Creation and you should be glad that information and friendship can be transmitted in real time across the internet!
I no like the name like
The name like is it used for boy & girl
Thank the one above LIBA LIB in yiddish is
much more refined & doesn’t come from facebook.
Miskenim #4 SAYS IT ALL!
idiots
I think names should be inspired by Torah or our choshuve ancestors, not by facebook.
Sir, you’re a moron for naming your child that. How would you LIKE it if your parents named you that?!
this is galus smarty. When will you wake up?
btw that was for #9 but i thought it might b obvious.
Did they post this on their Facebook page?
If they did then you can “likr” it.