Some times is imposible....specially if the the first part of last name is "Saint"

Maybe as long as it's not faith

I make my own destiny anyway. My name is Paul, the guy who in the Bible invented Hell, the worst concept that anyone could imagine up. Did one much better, named my Daughter Paloma, meaning White Dove. She is true to her name of love and Peace.

I have four uncles on my dad's side: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, although not in that order. There are enough religious names in my family, thankyouverymuch.

Meh. Yes, a lot of the older, more common names have some times to the bible. Not a big deal to me. Conversely, i'm setting on never having children, so kind of a moot point for me.

I went with "other". I would not name a child something like Christian or any other name that evokes thoughts of religion. However, Western society has been tainted by the church for so many centuries that there are religious meanings behind a large number of common names. For example, my given name, Danny (NOT Daniel, though it is a derivative), derives from Daniel which means "God is my judge."

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet"

You mean the name, John Paul Luke Jesus Mother Mary Sister Christian is out of the question to name a child?

Well, I'm named Crawley by my mother who is very religious...yet I'm an atheist. Could naming have been an influence😅?

Well to be honest, my name is a derivative from a religious standpoint. If it meant that much to me, I'd change my name. having said that a name is just a name. It's derivation is really unimportant. Most who encounter that person will not even know or care about the names derivation unless it is obvious like mine. Even with that who cares.

I think so many names could be traced to a religious origin that it's kind of a fool's errand to try to avoid it. If a name sounds pleasing and doesn't have some weird connotation or would somehow be easy for eventual middle school peers to make fun of ... I'd use it. My wife is a stickler for "flow". She likes the first / middle / last name to roll off the tongue. A counterexample ripped from today's headlines: Hope Hicks. That's rather jarring / harsh and shares no vowels, and it leads to things like this headline I saw today: "Hope Hicks' House hack hoax".

I would avoid them.

Meh, it's not something I'd get too hung up about. While names may derive from religious origins, things change over time and certain names/customs trancend their original meanings. So I certainly wouldn't avoid names that derive from religions provided they are not some overly spiritual name I guess.

My surname is garden so if I had children they'd be Herb, Rose and Lilly, the pet cat would be scruffy

My oldest son is named Matthew. When I first told his father (we were not married/together) he said "Biblical, but I like it". I had forgotten Matthew was an apostle when I named him. Names are names to me. Nothing more, nothing less.

When we named our son 44 years ago, we chose Ziff. Now he tells people we were hippies. I tell them we were high! Lol (It's a Romanian-Jewish last name and a Swiss-German word that means "paragraph " or "number one." I only admit to him being #1 (and that we were high). He still loves it, by the way.

Well, I have a Jewish friend whose parents named her Christine because they just liked the name. Yeah, she never understood that, but it was never a problem.

If I ever had an offspring they would get named after a musician or comic book character

I gave my sister my favorite name for a boy and she named my nephew like that: Yaveh. You have no idea how it upsets Christians. I tell my nephew he has the name of a judeo-christian mythological god. It's perfect, and we all love the name.

Never

My son is Michael and my daughter is Kristen. She's an atheistic agnostic, and we have had a couple of laughs over the meaning of her name. EDIT: I tried to talk a coworker out of naming her daughter Lillith though. This woman is religious and didn't have a clue about the origin of the name.

I wouldn't avoid names with religious connotations at all. In fact many of my favourite names are from religious mythology: Rebecca (I prefer Rebekah), Ruth, Athene, Artemis, Phoebe, Eve, Rachel, Abigail, Persephone, Hannah, Esther, Lilith, Magdalena... and various others.

I better not have kids cause I have awful name ideas in mind..I mean, I want a cat to name itb Mewphistopheles.

At the time my husband and I became parents, we were practising pagans. We chose the names of pagan deities for our two children. My father and his parents were horrified, and asked why we would do such a thing. "To bring the gods alive" we responded. Naming them after pagan deities occasioned numerous opportunities to have discussions about those names, those deities and their significance, which led into wider discussions of mythologies and religious beliefs in general.

I care more about how it sounds. Michelle -- Named after a hockey player only pronounced differently. his is MEE-SHELL Julia -- Named after my mom Steven -- Stevie Ray Vaughan lol...yep his middle name is Ray too. My siblings and I... Remember my mom was raised Catholic. Daniel, Patricia, Mark, Paul, and Jeffery. Jeffery is the oddball because they let me choose between two names when I was 4 years old. I thought Jeff sonded like Jet so I picked that one. lol I don't remember what the other name was. He might as well have the odd name since the boy ain't right anyway.