“oomis1105: Reb Moshe Feinstein in Tshuvis does not think like you and your husband.
Personal fealings don’t come in when we deal with Halacha. “
Right Path – there is NO halacha when it comes to naming a baby. Only minhagim. Personal feelings very much DO come in when dealing with this issue. The Torah is filled with all the names of babies that came from emotional feelings of the parents. It has nothing to do with Halacha at all. With all due respect, I believe that you are mistaken about this specific issue.
And my own Rov, ZT”L to whom Rav Moshe ZT”L referred his own PERSONAL shailos, specifically told my husband and me that to give the name in Loshon Kodesh was a bigger zechus for both the baby AND the niftar (if any) for whom that baby is named. He advised us to always look for the exact Hebrew equivalent, if the name was not intrinsically in Ivrit. One of Bnei Yisroel’s zechusim in Mitzrayim was that they did not change their Hebrew names from Loshon Kodesh to an Egyptian-acceptable version. Considering that they owed a great debt to Yosef who was known as Tzofnas Paneach, you would think there would have otherwise been many little Tzofnas Paneachs running around (as we see many Alexanders, Senders, etc. out of respect for Alexander the Great). But there were not and are not.