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There is a huge difference.

Those names are Yiddish, and Yiddish is a Jewish language. They may have come from German and Slavic roots, but they were absorbed into Yiddish.

English is not a Jewish language. Yeshivish and haymish are not Jewish languages; they are euphemisms for bad English or tzibruchene Aynglish. The turning point for English names came and went when assimilation was considered the in thing. That changed was over after the war and really ended in the 60s.

It almost happened that French names became accepted among North Africans in place of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic names. Sadly, it is happening again in EY because of the desire to be “European;” names like Nathalie that have no business being given to Jews are back in style in EY – and those same names are being dropped in France and Canada in favor of proper shmos beYisroel.