She got more popular with time I think, she’s personally my favorite female character and the one I identified with the most, since my survival strategy is endurance rather than rebellion.
There’s a frustrating tendency for some people to hate female characters who aren’t “badass”.
Anyway the name itself is possibly more out there than
Arya? As a name, Sansa reminds me too much of
Gregor Samsa from Kafka’ s Metamorphosis.
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
Walt Kelly