Overly religious name?!..your opinion?
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Overly religious name?!..your opinion?
| Fri, 06-06-2008 - 4:02pm |
At first, DH and I got settled on Christian Alexander for our little boy. After MIL found out about it, she persuaded DH to change his mind, and


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I do associate Christian with being Christian.
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Hi there.
It is not a variation Christopher.
Hi! I think this ties into another thread where we talked about babies named April born in April and babies born in Indiana named Indiana. The verdict was people are usually named those names when they are NOT associated with the month/city etc. (With the exception of some Christmas babies having a middle name "Holly" or "Noelle" etc.)
We talked about this because I had considered naming our son (?) August and the whole consensus on the board was that August is a fine name but only if he's born in any month BESIDES August, which would make it cheesy.
Back to you: an overly religious person named Christian would be overkill, but a person with more typical "watered down" Christianity (i.e. puts up Christmas tree, takes kids to see Santa, etc.) or just a person with "spiritual" beliefs is a much better fit.
I will agree though with the poster who said it would be kind of odd if you were practicing another religion altogether i.e. Muslim, but then again you'd be avoiding all "Christian" names like Mary etc., anyway.
In short, I would NOT associate a man named "Christian" with him being *overly* religious any more than I would make that association with someone named Jacob/Mary/Paul/Joseph etc.
HTH!
PS- I don't think Christians are discriminated against at all. I'm not overly religious, but I was brought up going to church here & there, so I guess I'm culturally "American Christian" like most everybody else and I have never in my life been discriminated against. Some people overseas are a little rude to Americans in general, but in all my travels throughout Europe & Asia I've have no problems either (granted I've never been to any Muslim countries but I digress . . .)
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I LOVE the name Christian.
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