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I don't have the impression that sage has a layered symbolism the way rose does. I'm splitting hairs, but that's how I would explain my feeling that Rose is more "serious" than Sage. Rose has esoteric & religious symbolism when stylized, political symbolism, and folk symbolism... it's almost not even an object-name, the image is so freighted. Detached/intangible is a good way to say it too, I guess, but also tradition gives it some gravity, for me ... Sage wasn't used as a name hardly at all until just recently, while Rose has been a name for as long as anyone can remember. Lily seems heavier than Sage to me. And Sage more than Saffron.

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My impressions are limited by my cultural exposure to different things, obviously! Which doesn't amount to a preference, it's just a personal limitation on how I perceive things. I like some names that are folk-symbolic, or modern / non-traditional / non-Christian symbols, and a lot of names that are totally banal too. Crystal, Ember, Sienna, Rowan, etc

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I appreciate the info you're offering about Saffron. I guess some people who like it superficially, might nerd out and look up all the symbolism, and I should appreciate that. But I wouldn't be inclined to look it up myself, just because I don't like it as a name. If I did like it a lot, I think I'd have tried to find out all about it.

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I'm not really with you on assuming that it's meant to refer to the Bible because her middle is Domini. But it can't be ruled out, so, fair point!

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- mirfak

This message was edited 9/19/2022, 4:29 PM