Can I name my Jewish daughter Mary?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Are you Jewish? There's an obvious difference between an adopted child keeping their birth name; and choosing the single-most Christian girls' name deliberately.

I'm one of the PPs who had a Jewish great-aunt who went by Mary. In my opinion, Christina is the single-most Christian girls' name.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are you Jewish? There's an obvious difference between an adopted child keeping their birth name; and choosing the single-most Christian girls' name deliberately.

I'm one of the PPs who had a Jewish great-aunt who went by Mary. In my opinion, Christina is the single-most Christian girls' name.

I think Noelle and Virginia tie Christina.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is weird culturally because of the Catholic focus with the Virgin Mary, but it is biblically Jewish. No one questions Mark or Paul with Jewish boys, and there are a ton of Jewish men with those names...very New Testament. It really is just cultural.
Now, Christine, Christina, Chrissy...that is a Christian name.

Not entirely true. Jews are "Saul," which was Paul's Jewish name. Jewish "Paul"s again, are largely named after older relatives who picked an assimilated Christian version of the traditional Jewish name.

"Mark," like "Julius," are/were popular Jewish names because they are Roman names.

-- mom to a "Julius Saul," named after an Orthdox great uncle (deceased) and a great-grandmother and great-grandfather, Paul and Pauline.

Julius actually wasn't a Roman first name. It was a family name (a nomen, not a praenomen), of the tribe/clan of the Julii. Caesar's own first name was Gaius (Gaius Julius Caesar).

Where did I say it was it first name? Neither is "Mackenzie." I have a Latin degree from Berkeley, btw, which rarely comes in handy, but which means I already knew this little bit of entirely unrelated knowledge.

[Anonymous]

It's cultural, people-that's all. No rules

Names that people do not associate with a Jewish heritage:
Girls
Patricia
Patty
Mary
Katherine
Kate
Courtney
Maria
Caroline- lyn
Carole
Christine, Crissy, Kristen, Kirsten- really not a Jewish names
Dawn
Darleen
Joann
Frances
Marie


Boys
Earl
Patrick
Peter
Roy
Rex
Hank
John ( with an H) Jon is OK
Butch
Jack
Chip
Dennis
Chuck
Anything the Palins or Romneys named their kids

Wait- there is food too:
Mayonnaise- nope Mustard-yes
Ham- no- Pastrami-yes
Pepsi- nope A Ginger Ale or Cream Soda yes
Cream Chip Beef- no Cholent- yes
White bread- no Wheat or Rye- yes
Aspic- nope- Orange Jello- yes

You get the idea.....it is just a thing without any real reason.....

[Anonymous]

What is culturally Jewish about orange jello?