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Poor Sailor Moon. I don't believe Sailor was started by it (see my reply to Chazda), but it might've been influenced by it.

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And in that light, Sailor Marie (for example) sounds immensely stupid, because of course Sailor Senshi are protectors--and, according to some, rulers, in the distant past and future--of planets/asteroids/moons only, and have therefore almost always have astrological names: Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mnemonsyne, etc. (There's no Sailor Earth because Tuxedo Mask is the senshi of Earth; he's a Senshi, but not a Sailor Senshi, as Sailor Senshi can only be female.) They all have non-astrological, if frequently punny, civilian names; but in Sailor form they're never called by their given name unless one of the other Senshi's addressing them, and that happens only rarely.

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That explanation out of the way... I don't like Sailor as a name at all. It sounds too occupational to me. I don't mind Tucker or Taylor or Tyler as names, but those occupations are as blatantly obvious in name form as Sailor is.

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However, I think Sailor's a lot better than Saylor, which may be proper in surnames (like Tailor / Taylor), but only looks illiterate in given name form imo.

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Miranda