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Personally I much prefer the spellings Sayler or Saylor instead of Sailor for the given name. To me, using the same spelling as the word is like naming the child Soldier or Pilot and is a lot more eccentric than naming the child Sayler or Saylor. Sayler and Saylor are English surnames (actually going back to a Norman French word for "dancer"). There is a well-known mystery novelist named Steven Saylor, for instance. Sayler and Saylor look much more like appropriate given names to me than Sailor does.

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Those of you who are telling the original poster to use the spelling Sailor -- would you tell someone who was considering naming a child Taylor to use the spelling Tailor instead? :)

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