More Rowans and Sabrinas coming down the road? “Dyan,” however, is not necessarily Pagan. There was this singer-songwriter from Minnesota …
Letter from Hardscrabble Creek
A Pagan Studies Blog by Chas S. Clifton
More Rowans and Sabrinas coming down the road? “Dyan,” however, is not necessarily Pagan. There was this singer-songwriter from Minnesota …
By modern standards, most of these seem almost stodgy, certainly way better than all the hipster baby names afflicting the newest generation.
On the other hand it does bring to mind a friend’s anecdote about someone telling an Orthodox Christian she’d named her daughter Aphrodite so that she wouldn’t share a name with any Christian saints. “I hate to tell you,” came the response, “but there is a Saint Aphrodite.”
And let’s not forget that St. Josaphat is really St. Bodhisattva, in other words, the Buddha.
It’s also not unusual for Coptic Egyptian Christians to name their kids Isis or Ramses.
Nothing beats Victorian Christian names.