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Heidi vs Rachel - What's the difference?

heidi | rachel |

As proper nouns the difference between heidi and rachel

is that heidi is while rachel is rachel (biblical character).

heidi

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1983 , The Little Drummer Girl , Pan Books, ISBN 0330282565, page 142:
    • "Heidi'?" Kurtz echoed. "'''''Heidi'''''? That's a damned odd name for an English elder sister, isn't it?" "Not for '''Heidi''', it isn't," she replied buoyantly, and scored an immediate laugh from the kids beyond the lighting. '''Heidi''' because her parents went to Switzerland for their honeymoon, she explained; and Switzerland was where ' Heidi was conceived. "Among the edelweiss," she added, with a sigh.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.}} ----

    rachel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Rachael * Rachelle

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Younger daughter of Laban, sister to Leah, and second wife of Jacob.
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    • And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel'. Leah was tender eyed; but '''Rachel''' was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved '''Rachel'''; and said, I will serve thee seven years for ' Rachel thy younger daughter.
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  • * 1849 The Massachusetts Teacher , Massachusetts Teachers' Association, Vol. 2,page 26, January 1849:
    • Rachel is another modest, nun-like name, of the same order as Judith, and has the appropriate signification of a lamb.
  • * 1979 , Shikasta , Knopf, 1979, ISBN 0394507321, page 293
    • She keeps saying, You are mistaken Rachel'. She says my name in that heavy earnest way. The Jewish '''Ra-chel'''. I like my name like that. I have always been pleased when people said ' Ra-chel . But when she says it, it is as if she was taking me over. Through my name.
  • * 2010 Rob Sachs, What Would Rob Do? , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470457732:
    • I recognize that a name like Rachel goes against my whole "ordering a different dish from everyone else at the table" rule, but sometimes you really want a steak, and that's exactly what you should get. I love the name we gave our daughter. It's not dorky, not too whimsical, and not too stuck-up. To us it sounded sweet, sporty, smart, and beautiful. It also works well with Sachs.