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SR, b”h, may they continue to be blessed both with children and riches!
I was thinking about this and I realized that it my be a European vs American background. As a second generation Holocaust survivor we were raised to honor those that lost their lives in the Holocaust. When we had our children we asked our parents for a list of names to choose from. It could have been their brothers or sisters as well as aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. We chose from the list they gave us and it didn’t even occur to us to just pick a name from a book or whatever. Maybe others, who didn’t have that experience and didn’t have the same connection being a descendent of survivors don’t have that same strong feeling or conviction. It might also be a strong family tradition brought from the “alter heim” which we just feel is very important as the other traditions that we hold on to in our families. That might just be it, it might just be a family thing.