bp27- It actually used to be that everyone was given both the yiddish name and the hebrew equivalency, e.g. Shoshana Raizel, Tova Gittel, etc. Then the girl was called by the yiddish name only. People naming after their grandparents forgot that they ever had the hebrew name to begin with and named only the yiddish name. You don’t see this trend until about 150/200 years ago that this happened by really frum people. That’s not a very long time.
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