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and so that we can restore a perfectly legitimate name that was good enough for many a girl or woman who died al kiddush Hashem to bear.”

While I agree with you totally in theory, “Yenta” is still not Loshon Kodesh, and on THOSE grounds I am not a fan of naming a child that, or any other name that is not Hebrew.

I understand and appreciate the view that babies should be named for Tzaddikim, kedoshim, and Gedolim, but I cannot help but think that one of our zchusim in Mitzrayim was that we did not take on the names of the goyim, even when those goyim were were good to us (did any Jews ever name their sons Tzafnas Paneach for Yosef? They might have, but I doubt it happened until the days of Alexander the Great).