streak of bad luck

and string of bad luck

a series of events that are only bad luck. After a long string of bad luck, we finally got a lucky break.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Georgine	zhor-ZHEEN	French
Peleg	-	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew
Havel	-	Czech, Slovak
Dragomir	-	Serbian, Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Medieval Slavic
Lia (2)	LEE-ah (Italian)	Italian, Dutch
Shivali	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi