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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IT's a Catholic name.  I would think it weird and I'm not even Jewish.[/quote]

[b]Mary was a Jew[/b].[/quote]

Duh.  But all Catholic parents have to select a "Christian name" for the christening.  It must be after a Saint or otherwise approved Catholic name.  Ergo lots of Marys. Jews have many lovely names to select from.  Why pick one that screams "Christian name"?[/quote]

[b]Uh, no, you don’t have to select an approved “Christian name” for [u]baptism[/u]. Which is what Catholics call it, not christening. [/quote][/b]

Read and learn.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_name[/quote]

Even the article you cite says

Various Fathers and spiritual writers and synodal decrees have exhorted Christians to give no names to their children in baptism but those of canonized saints or of the angels of God, but [b]at no point in the history of the Church were these injunctions strictly attended to.[[/b]2]

My family is more Catholic than the Pope. I know everyone’s name at baptism and their confirmation name because I am the family historian. Even in the “Greatest Generation” cohort, less than 20% had a saint’s name or other religious connotation and every single one of those individuals is actually named after an older family member.

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