Several In Custodia Legis team members have previously written about regulation of naming in a variety of countries, including Germany; Iceland ; New Zealand; Sweden; and Taiwan. I thought it would be interesting to see how Israel, my primary research jurisdiction, regulates names.
Silkscreen plates (2004), with permission to publish by the artist Tamar Messer. BS1312 .M47 2004b Hebr Cage, courtesy of the Africa Middle East Division of the Library of Congress.
The Most Popular Israeli Names (Good to Know Ruth is not Completely Outdated)
Checking Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics for 2015, it appears that 707 names were registered for Jewish girls with the biblical name Noa as the most popular name. My name, Ruth