I call it the "add-a-*hey*" (or add a *yud-taf*) syndrome, and I have to say I'm scornful of it. If you like the name Tal, or Yarden, or Ophir, name your daughter Tal, or Yarden, or Ophir. Why tack on some suffix to differentiate them from "boys'" names?

My girls all have traditionally male names, and I reveled in the moment when people would say, "I didn't know that Yahav / Idan was a girls' name," and I'd get to say, "Well, it is now!" See my blog for more on the pink-and-blue syndrome whose persistence frustrates me no end...

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