The Sephardim in Western Europe were boring people ... when it comes to given names. It's Abraham, Aron, Benjamin, David, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, Salomon and some others over and over again. For this reason I always found the given names Rehuel and Gideon fascinating. I am quite sure that everywhere one encounters the name Rehuel in the Western Sepharic world, there must of necessicty be a relation to Rehuel Jessurun, the writer of Diologos dos Montas, Amsterdam, first half of the 17th century. And the name Gideon is almost invariably bound to the family Abudiente. There are two families in which these given names, Rehuel and Gideon, are dominant, the one is Abudiente, the other is Cohen Lobatto, the first from Amsterdam, the second from Hamburg and both originating from Portugal. The dominance of the names Rehuel and Gideon in the Abudiente family started when Moses de Gideon Abudiente married Sara Jessurun, audghter of Rehuel Jessurun.What I do not know is, how the names Rehuel and Gideon came into the family Cohen Lobatto. Does anyone know?