Advice Giving a Name

Shalom rabbi, I'm having a son in the next few months and I wanted to give him a special name and so I wish him be pleasing for our KING so I wish to name him (may G-D be happy or pleased), is there a Jewish name that could be meaning these words like our ancestors did, thank you may HASHEM bless you

Shalom!

Thank you for your question.

I understand you are looking to name your child with aname that will be for a person who is pleasing ahapy to Hashem. so Hagaon Harav shelittah suggests the name שמחה אליהו - Simcha Eliyahu, may you merit to see much Nachat from him and all you children.

Here are some tips on the Jewish view on naming children.

For starters, one might want to consider giving only one name to children if one plans on only calling him by one name. However, one may give a child two names if one plans on regularly using the two names.

One should not name children after people who lived before Avraham Avinu, as such people were not Jewish and did not perform any mitzvot.

It is forbidden to name a child after someone who was wicked, and it is said that such a child will not be successful in life. One may name a child with a name that was shared by both righteous and wicked people, and when calling the name at the Brit, to have intent that he is calling the child after the Tsadik.

As well as names of those who repented from their evil ways towards the end of their lives, one should still have in mind to name the child after someone with the same name who was more righteous.

One should name the exact name when naming a child after a departed relative, there is no value in merely using a similarly sounding or similarly spelled name, as well or even adding another name. 

Ashkenazi custom is not to name a child after living relatives. In many Sephardic communities, however, it is customary to name children after living relatives, some even have the minhag to name even after a living parent. 

It is permissible to name a child after a deceased sibling. One is discouraged from naming a child after someone who had a particularly bad life or one who died in a tragic manner, especially if it was at a young age. “Young” for these purposes is younger than fifty years old. One who insists on naming a child after one who died young should have in mind when naming the child at the brit of another person who lived a long life.