Christian names, Atheist names ?

[Dries van Tonder]

I'm easy with most things.

Sigworthy.

[mistermack]

My ninety-year-old aunt was most put out when my niece was named Lucy.
It's a good atheist name twice over.

I would have called "Lucy" as religious name, because it reminds me of Saint Lucia.

My Aunt thought it sounded like Lucifer.

I think of it as Lucy, the type skeleton of australopithecus afarensis.

[Geoff]

Of course they've been co-opted for use in the fictional accounts of the bible. I'm sure most of the New Testament characters were named using contemporaneous names for the times and locales in which they were penned. They're now considered 'Christian'.

Technically my name is a character from the bible, happily a minor one.

I don't recall "Pord" at all.

I don't recall any thinking in the bible either.

I meant my real name of course.

"Thinking" is in Leviticus 95:1-55

Presumably mentioned as one of those activities that is banned for them, like eating unclean food and working on Sabbaths...?

[Svartalf]

In Afrikaner tradition, the first born son gets his name from the paternal grandfather. The second son gets his name from the maternal grandfather. Hence my name: "Andries". My grandfather's names were "Andries Gottlieb"; fortunately my parents decided to drop the second name. My brother's name is "Petrus". The English equivalents of "Andries" is "Andrew" and for "Petrus" Peter. Both were shortened to "Dries" (Drew) and "Peet" (Pete). My sister was the lucky one; her name is Babette.

I would really be reluctant to give kids a name connected to religion or non-religion

Lucky? not unless she's a top notch cook... or she'll never live down the bad 'feast' jokes

[Bella Fortuna]

I'm easy with most things.

Sigworthy.

And hard when it counts.

[Thinking Aloud]

I'm easy with most things.

Sigworthy.

[apophenia]

Oh, my bad. I thought you said Emo, not Evo -- and it was kinda hanging together until it didn't.

My kids, if I ever adopt, will be rechristened senator or congressman.

Figure I don't have much else to give them.

[Dries van Tonder]

In Afrikaner tradition, the first born son gets his name from the paternal grandfather. The second son gets his name from the maternal grandfather. Hence my name: "Andries". My grandfather's names were "Andries Gottlieb"; fortunately my parents decided to drop the second name. My brother's name is "Petrus". The English equivalents of "Andries" is "Andrew" and for "Petrus" Peter. Both were shortened to "Dries" (Drew) and "Peet" (Pete). My sister was the lucky one; her name is Babette.

I would really be reluctant to give kids a name connected to religion or non-religion

Lucky? not unless she's a top notch cook... or she'll never live down the bad 'feast' jokes

And she's not a top notch cook

[JimC]

I suppose James is rather biblical...

However, I always use the contraction Jim (I know, I know, you never would have guessed...)

More piratical than biblical...

"Aarrrrggghhhh Jim lad..."

[mistermack]

I'm easy with most things.

Sigworthy.

And hard when it counts.

I'm envious. What's the secret?

[Jason]

I've always liked the name Jack.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

My name (Ian) is biblical in origin, being a Scottish form of John (by the way Scots, Ian = John? W.T.F? I don't even... ).
However looking around my family, my sister's name (Jenny) is non-biblical - being ultimately Arthurian in origin, my Mum's name (Susan) was also non-biblical - being Ancient Egyptian in origin, my Dad's name (David) is biblical, as is my Nephew's (Joe - although he pronounces it 'Roe' - which is deer of him ), of my two Aunt's on my Mum's side one has a name ultimately biblical in origin (Jackie) and the other doesn't (Irene), both my Mum's parents had good solid Germanic names (Freda and Walter) even though only my Nan was actually German, my Dad's Dad's name was non-biblical (Leonard), I can't recall what his Mum's name was. I also have several cousin's (none of them first cousins) on my Dad's side including Shirley (non-biblical), Richard (non-biblical), Joanne (biblical), Susan (non-biblical), Samantha (unknown origin), Holly (non-biblical), Alexandra (non-biblical), Lucy (non-biblical), Sarah (biblical), and one other who's name I've forgotten (oops).

So my family seems a mixed-bag on this front. Personally, if I was picking someone's name I'd avoid biblical ones, and I kind of hope that a lot of them will begin to die-out in the west - but it's not something I get too worked-up or militant about.

[Bella Fortuna]

Yes, but what about great-uncle Zipporah...

[borealis]

Penn Jillette's girl is called Moxie CrimeFighter and the son Zolten Penn. I think they'd be quite cool atheist names

[Bella Fortuna]

Penn Jillette's girl is called Moxie CrimeFighter and the son Zolten Penn. I think they'd be quite cool atheist names

But surely you recollect the CrimeFighter gospels in the babble?