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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Carion...While is sounds nice, I don't think the parents checked to see what it meant.[/quote]

You reminded me! I've know two people named Simian-- a WASP girl who spelled it just like that, and a black boy spelled Simeon. [/quote]

Simeon is a Hebrew name, and biblical - "he has heard.". [/quote]

Ok, but in English it means monkey! Or rather, primate. To refer to someone as having "simian" features means they look like a monkey. There are lots of beautiful words in other languages that mean something entirely different in other languages. And that disqualifies them as names, in my book, if you have any connection at all to the language that carries the other meaning. [/quote]

Seriously, stop it, you're annoying.  They are two different words, and Simeon is a well-used if not exactly common name.  It's like saying "but Peter is also a slang word for penis, yuk yuk."  Juvenile.  [/quote]

NP here. Because of racial and social context naming an African American child Simeon is not at all the same as chosing one of a hundred common boys' names that are occassionally used as slang for "penis." Stop being naive PP. It's annoying. [/quote]

Simeon and Simien are also surnames.  I personally know a lovely african american family with the last name and they trace it back to France with French-Creole roots.

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