There is no shortage of Catholic names. There once was the excellent book, "Is It A Saint's Name?", and my wife and I got it, when we were selecting a name for our son. TAN carried it, but I don't think it's in print any longer. Abebooks supposedly has copies starting at $10.00:
https://www.abebooks.com/9780895550248/Saints-Name-Dunne-William-P-0895550245/plpWe found such names as Hannah, Montana,
and Elvis (a form of the Irish
Ailbe).
And, no, we didn't name our son Elvis.
It seems as though all white people in this country give their children six-letter English-sounding epicene names, to the exclusion of anything else, more Taylors, Saylors, Hunters, Carters, Bradens, Austins, Paytons, and Hayleys, than you can shake a stick at. ("Austin" is actually a short form of Augustine.)
Don't even get me started on black names, it is as though they have a secret website, "findyouruniqueblackname.com", with a registry to ensure that your child, and nobody else, has that name, spells it that way, and/or pronounces it that way. Apostrophes are inserted the same way that the grammatically weak writer takes a stab in the dark to determine whether a word that ends in "s" takes an apostrophe or not. Better stop there. But the pathetic thing, is that it makes crime stories pretty transparent, even if race isn't specified otherwise.
Topic: Baby names? (Read 4974 times)