Aleph as a name?

[HiYouKnowItsMe]

Title; thoughts on Aleph as the name for a boy?
Another one I like is Calix, perhaps as a middle name.

Natalie Portman has a son named Aleph, I’ve never heard the name used in real life.

Calix sounds a bit close to the IKEA Kallax wardrobes, to me.

Would something like Cassian work for you?

The actress Natalie Portman named her son Aleph. I’m quite neutral about it.

Aleph Calix. It sounds like you got your words mixed up and meant to say Caliph Alex instead, the next ruler of a theocratic nation.

With Aleph, I’d assume Arabic heritage. Would that be true/ would you want that? I’d see it more appropriate for a girl too for some reason.

Calix would make me think of IKEA furniture.

Isn't it the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet? But my first thought was (although it's a different spelling) was "Where Alph, the sacred river, ran. Through caverns measureless to man. Down to sunless sea"

How is Aleph pronounced? ALEF? Never heard of it.
Calix sounds like a type of plant.

@u3ername , Hebrew not Arabic. The Arabic letter is Alif.

@HiYouKnowItsMe , Calix is a bit too flowery

Both awful

People are likely to mishear and think the name is "Alf"!

@EcruCardiganOk, thanks. I’m pretty sure I met a woman with that name in Turkey, not sure if it’s the letter or a different meaning.

Aleph is Hebrew.

Think he’d spend a lot of time saying no not Alex / Alf
I think it’s nice though. I’d assume you were Jewish.
I agree your other name is too close to kallax. Cassian, caspian, Cassius, alexi,
dax, drax, yaxiel, Fenyx

She called her child Aleph because it's both Hebrew and Arabic and she loved the connection.

Calix is Kay-licks or Kah-licks and is part of a flower.

@Wishimaywishimight I would've thought the name is pronounced AL-eff so that couldn't happen

I think they'd say it as Al-if. I'd say Joseph as Joe-sif.

OP- Does that mean that even you don't know how its pronounced??? 😕

I think some would say it as Ayl-if

That doesn’t even sound right? Do you really like it?

Calix means goblet in Latin. Does it have another meaning?

Would it bother you (or your child) to have to tell every single teacher how to pronounce their name? This would be multiple times a day at secondary school.

I don’t see how it could have been mistaken for Alf, any way. PP who said AL-if or ayl-if would be right.

In the same way as people mix up Ernst and Ernest.

If Aleph had a sister you could call her Beth. DC3 doesn’t get such a good name though.

@HiYouKnowItsMe are you Elon Musk?