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Britishseamonkey · 11/12/2013 23:13

I'm looking for a non biblical girl's name. Still want something quite classic, no flower names.
And when I say non biblical we also don't want names that are thought of as being part the 'Christian community' - so most Irish names , though I love them , and european names are out - nothing associated even vaguely as 'catholic'.
Any ideas?

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Fantail · 13/12/2013 05:52

Didn't realise Chloe was in the bible. Learn something new every day!

What about:
Melody
Viola
Ophelia
Juno
Verity
Ceres

Virtue names like Patience, Hope, Honor, Prudence, Constance etc

AuntieStella · 13/12/2013 06:51

There's a St Audrey (well known to etymologists as root of the word 'tawdry')

AuntieStella · 13/12/2013 06:53

And there's a St Penelope too (one of the Holy Forty Virgin Martyrs)

sashh · 13/12/2013 08:37

Why didn't you just say 'no saints names' then?

Probably because most people are not RC and therefore do not know of many saints cannonised after the middle ages. Would the name Margaret Clitherow spring to mind as a saint? If you are an English RC it probably will, for the vast majority it won't.

OK going to throw a curve ball, Madiba?

soontobeslendergirl · 13/12/2013 10:07

Tansy
Flora
Carys
Leonora
Lillian
Catriona
Elspeth

stleger · 13/12/2013 12:01

If your dh is from an evangelical Baptist background, would his family really think saints' names are part of the Christian community? Having been educated in a primary school where a lot of families were evangelical, a lot of names were old testament - Ruth, Sarah, etc. or Apostles (obviously not for girls!). Saints were 'Catholic' so non-biblical, and frowned on.

mum2jakie · 13/12/2013 18:45

Jennifer, Kim, Fiona, Saskia, Leonie?

BikeRunSki · 13/12/2013 20:13

Keira
Elin
Carys
Marla
Karen/Caron

Graceparkhill · 13/12/2013 20:19

How about Wendy? Invented by JM Barrie for Peter Pan?

MaybeABitLikeTigger · 13/12/2013 20:19

Flora
Maya
Daisy
Summer
Luna
Thora

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