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My total lack of religious beliefs does affect my naming: I have two great-grandmothers with the same name. Worth honouring, don't you think? Well, so would I, except their name is Christiana. And rather than submit my (equally atheist, as it happens) daughter to a lifetime of explanations and misunderstandings, I didn't consider it for one moment. Biblical names are differentL some are very obvious, others have become naturalised. My son Peter's mn is David, both honouring but neither biblical. And the girls got, inter alia, Mary, Elizabeth and Anne as mns, all of which were honouring real, live relatives.