Jewish name changes

[brigidmac]

I've been trying to sort out my ggfather's Russian/latvian born half siblings

but can't work out  if the girl who was born named Khaya  could have become Matilda in GB in the 1890's
+ if Taube's name changed to Gertrude
how likely is that ?

the English born ones were Golda + Esther
maybe Golda became Gertrude
Esther  was Estelle in USA by 1910

what other FIRST  name changes have you come across ?

Their mother was Sheina in Russia ,Sana in manchester ,jane in birkenhead + jeannie in USA
father changed from Leiser-mendel, to mendel to  Lazarus to Samuel   so a very difficult family to follow

[shellyesq]

My husband has Russian Jewish ancestors who came to the US, and a number of the names varied.

I think his grandfather's given name was Albert, but he shows up as Abraham in some census records.  I believe it might have been his Hebrew name.

Others were -

Jacke -> Yetta -> Ethel
Schmuel -> Samuel
Reike? -> Ida -> Helen