on imamother we had this discussion last year. a bunch of people said the same thing about rav chaim. one person wrote the following:
Just had bil ask Reb Chaim Kanevsky about the name Shira.
He did not say it’s not a name, he made a joke that when someone told him that dd was born Shabbos Shira and they would like to name her Shira. His answer was: “and if she was born on Shabbos Parah-would you name her parah?!
His exact answer was:” Are we missing nashim tzkanios to name after-name the baby Avigail” when my bil said :”and if they really want to name Shira?” He said “Efshar” (meaning you can)
Posted: Tue, May 11 2010, 2:32 am Post subject: re: names not names?
if you google the first line, you’ll find that post.