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Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months agoYou’re usually fine if you’ve got a biblically significant name. Many of those have staying power. Adam, Joshua, David, Samuel, Michael, Rebecca, John, Mary, Paul, etc. not all of them work though, and it varies by culture. “Jesus” is really coming in Spanish but almost unheard of in English (American POV).
Alatain@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That is a bit of a selection bias. What you are effectively saying is “the biblical names that have survived to today have staying power”.
But even that isn’t true here as almost all of the names you cite are significantly different now than their original forms. Looking at your list we have Yeshua, Shemuel, Mikael, Rivka, Yohanan, Miriam, and Paulus. Adam is mostly the same, as is David (with a bit of an accent difference), but the rest didn’t exactly emerge as they were.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My son is named Jericho 🤷🏽♀️
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 5 months ago
Jerry
meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Funnily enough, I looked up “Jerry” and it has a different origin, also biblical.