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Help[Facts] Sima as a Russian / Jewish / Russia Jewish name?
I recently found out by a friend doing genealogy that an ancestor who had an Americanized name, and immigrated to the US at the age of 3, had birth name Sima and NOT the name I knew her by, that she was married by and had her children by, etc.! What a find!
She was born in Odessa, (then) Russia in 1903. They were Jewish. Her birth name was Sima.
So I'm trying to research about Sima! I see on this site the Persian and Hindi names, which are unlikely to have been her name origin.
Nameberry llists Sima as Hebrew and meaning "ardent, fiery" as well as the Russian form of Seraphina.
Does anyone know, are either of these things true?
Either one - or maybe both together - could have been the reason her parents gave her that name.
Any advice greatly appreciated, either the Hebrew or the Russian side! Thank you! :)
She was born in Odessa, (then) Russia in 1903. They were Jewish. Her birth name was Sima.
So I'm trying to research about Sima! I see on this site the Persian and Hindi names, which are unlikely to have been her name origin.
Nameberry llists Sima as Hebrew and meaning "ardent, fiery" as well as the Russian form of Seraphina.
Does anyone know, are either of these things true?
Either one - or maybe both together - could have been the reason her parents gave her that name.
Any advice greatly appreciated, either the Hebrew or the Russian side! Thank you! :)
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