It might not be the awesomest meaning, but what's so terrible about it that it would put people off? It's just "meh", not bad.
Plus in my experience, people who aren't name nerds or interested in etymology in some way pay very little attention to the meaning of a name when picking names for their children (at least in Western languages where the meaning of most names isn't obvious).
- Formerly known as Murasaki-
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