Celebrity baby name: Emet Kuli

After her son Emet Kuli Loeb Hershkovitz was born in 2012, singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb wrote a blog post about his birth and included a few details about his name:

We chose the name Emet because it’s a Hebrew word meaning “truth” that also sounds like a Southern name […] That way my husband’s family from Israel, my family from Texas, and other folks we see on a regular basis can pronounce the name in their own way, but correctly!

Kuli is Roey’s grandfather’s name — actually a nickname — the name he was known by for most of his life. Since he was a very fast soccer player, everyone called him “Kuli” a shortened version of the Hungarian word “kulimász” meaning cart grease, used to make wheels on carts faster.

I love the unique story behind Kuli. Though I am curious to how the Israeli (?) grandfather came to have a nickname that was based on a Hungarian word.

Lisa and husband Roey Hershkovitz also have a daughter named Lyla Rose, born in 2009.

Source: Lisa Loeb’s Blog: Meet My Son Emet

2 thoughts on “Celebrity baby name: Emet Kuli

  1. Probably grandpa Kuli was born in Hungary and moved to Israel after WWII. Not unusual for that generation of Jews.

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