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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is weird culturally because of the Catholic focus with the Virgin Mary, but it is biblically Jewish. [b]No one questions Mark or Paul[/b] 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.[/quote]

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.

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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).  
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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.[/quote]

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