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There's plenty of overlap among so-called Jewish and Christian names; makes sense, since the Torah is the New Testament and there is a lot of common history/mythology.

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Salome's never been used with any real regularity. Probably the idea of a girl who did a sexy dance for her stepfather and his friends, urged on by her mother, and again, as Mom instructed, asked to be rewarded with a man's hed on a plate, is not a positive association.

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Odessa feels very old-fashioned US to me. Neither Jewish nor Christian, but just an old-fashioned sound. There's a city in Texas called Odessa, and a tiny town here in Delaware called Odessa, and probably more Odessas in other places I don't know about.

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Sabbath feels very Puritan; the Puritans set a lot of importance on the Sabbath day; it just happened to be a different day than the Jewish Sabbath.

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