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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sarah is solid.[/quote]

[b]Hate Sarah, love Sara.[/b][/quote]

Same!

I'm a GenX Laura, and I really like my name.[/quote]

Interesting! Can you explain why? I'm a "Sara, no H" but don't really care or distinguish between the two. [/quote]
[b]Sarah feels more religious to me[/b], whether or not that's actually the case, and I'm not at all religious.  Maybe saying I "hate" Sarah is an overstatement, but I prefer Sara far and away.  It's such a simple, pretty name.  We considered it for our second when we were debating girl names (had a boy), and I'd definitely use it, given the opportunity.  :)[/quote]

I've heard this perception before as well. My sister's name is Sarah with an h, and I remember one of my Jewish friends thought for like a year and a half that my family was Jewish because she thought that Jewish people spelled Sarah with an h and non-Jews spelled it without (we also have a last name that is very similar in Yiddish as in German). It was actually hilarious because she invited me to shabbat at her house multiple times (and I went several times, I love shabbat) and she still didn't realize I wasn't Jewish until it came up in conversation much later (I guess I'm good at fitting in!). It took us a while to unwind the misunderstanding and we finally pinned it down to the name thing, the combination of our last name and my sister's name, and my friend had just made an assumption and it never got dispelled. Just thinking about this still makes me chuckle.

Anyway, not all Sarahs are religious (or Jewish!) though I guess I kind of understand that perception now.[/quote]
LOL!  I'm the one that posted that comment, and it's hilarious as someone who grew up with a lot of Jewish friends.  I know not all Sarahs are religious.  It's the -h ending that does it for me, in the way that Jonah has a religious connotation but Jonas doesn't (to me).  [/quote]

Thanks for this, PPs! Yes, I am Sara from an area that is heavily Jewish and my parents chose to skip the H since they're agnostic from a Christian background and they abided by the Sarah= Jewish, Sara= Not guidance. I am just spitballing here, but I think maybe that rule kind of went out the door when the popularity of Sarah exploded across the country, particularly into areas without a lot or any Jews. It seems like Sarah really became the default. I can't tell you how many times people have said Sara is spelled "wrong."

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NP. That makes sense. I was born in '79 and attended a Catholic grade school. There were about 47 Sarahs there.[/quote]

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