Israeli names

[davewitley]

Naama (not Anamar!) wrote:

> I wouldn't have thought that any American is called Naama. It's an 
> Israeli name. Possibly your fellow student is originally from 
Israel, 
> or has Israeli parents?

What exactly is an Israeli name?  Are there distinctively Israeli 
names, as opposed to Jewish ones?  If so, whence do they come?

I imagine that the Arab (and other long-standing such as Armenian) 
population of Israel don't think of their names as Israeli.

David (a name chosen for me in part because it was regarded as both 
English and Danish)