Is the name Abby too non-Jewish?

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We call our Avigail - Gaili (pronounced Guy-lee)

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when I think Abby I think of someone modern orthodox.

WOULD you call your daughter Rochel- Ray-chel as louche said?
because its the same idea.
its like an english version of the name.

I know some people who put their kids names on their birth certificates in the anglicized version.
like Rachel, David, Joseph but actually called them by the more frum sounding names Rochel, Dovid, and Yosef

here it sounds like you will do the opposite.

We wanted a certain nickname for one of our daughters, and chose the appropriate full name in order to use the nickname!
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Horrified to hear Yiddish speakers are per se frummer than others. Dovid or Rochel has nothing frummer or more Jewish than David and Rachel (now, Dayvid and Raytshl are English forms).
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