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Also Judeo-Anglo-Norman.
Source: Seror, Simon "Les noms des femmes juives en Angleterre au Moyen Âge".
The name Saffron was given to 21 girls born in the US in 2015.
This name was used only rarely in England during the nineteenth/twentieth century craze for flower names. It received some attention during the 1960s, since it features in Donovan's hit song, "Mellow Yellow".
It appears to be used in Turkey as a girl's name, in the form "Safran".
In the Bible the spice Saffron - long the most valuable of all spices - is called "karkom"; the modern Hebrew is "safran", like that Turkish girl's name.

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