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HelpRe: Naomi, Salome, Rebecca or Sara? (more)
in reply to a message by Perrine
If I had to use one of them, I'd use Rebecca, although outside of this hypothetical situation I would never really use it because of how massively popular it was. I do love it though.
I like Sara, but Sarah was also massively popular, and I've personally known many more women named Sarah or Sara than Rebecca, so it seems more ubiquitous to me than Rebecca is, although that is just a personal impression. I do like Rebecca more, anyway.
I've never cared for Naomi, and Salome has way too much baggage. I consider Salome to be unusable due to the Biblical character. It's never been popular in the US, and the last year it was even in the top thousand was 1908, so apparently I'm not alone in thinking so.
I like Sara, but Sarah was also massively popular, and I've personally known many more women named Sarah or Sara than Rebecca, so it seems more ubiquitous to me than Rebecca is, although that is just a personal impression. I do like Rebecca more, anyway.
I've never cared for Naomi, and Salome has way too much baggage. I consider Salome to be unusable due to the Biblical character. It's never been popular in the US, and the last year it was even in the top thousand was 1908, so apparently I'm not alone in thinking so.
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Yes, it really was extremely common! Slightly less common than Sarah, though. I think Sarah made the top 5 which Rebecca didn't and also the alternate spelling of Sara entered the top 50 while Rebekah etc didn't. Yes, I see. There were two Salomes in the Bible if I remember correctly and there is also a saint by this name. I love the meaning of peace. I wonder why Salome is always remembered as being horrible while Rebecca and Sarah also did horrible things but are remembered as good (see the post below). This is really interesting, in my opinion. Same with Delilah.
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