There are no ‘secular’ versions of biblical names. And the word Yiddish simply comes from the German word Jud, which means Jew. However the Yiddish language itself is actually a mixture of German, Polish, Russian and some Hebrew. If you want to look into it, you will find that the vast majority of the people living in Yiddish speaking communities in Europe in the last few hundred years had both the Hebrew and Yiddish versions (as someone already pointed out) – even the Gedolim of Europe, have a look and you will not find any with simply a Yiddish name (think Shlomo Zalman – Zalman is the same name as Shlomo)
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