Talk:Christian (given name)

Musings

The name Christan is mainly in upper america in the northren states —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.98.34.63 (talk • contribs) 00:53, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Usage

What does that mean: "Today in Europe—though not the United States—it is almost exclusively used as a male name [...]"? (text citation: 25 March 2008)

That it is used as a female name as well even today in the US, or that the name is not used in the US at all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kattania (talk • contribs) 17:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It means that the name "Christian" in Europe is almost always a boy's name but can be a girl's name, and as for the US, all we are told by this sentence is that they have a different story to Europe. Ceigered (talk) 10:18, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is the different story then? Does someone know? Otherwise that part should be removed. --Momotaro (talk) 21:34, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Christ Believer

I removed this from the article:

"Christian" can also mean "Christ Believer".^[1]

The preceding sentence explains that the name is used to "describe followers of Christianity" which makes this statement rather redundant. abwayax (contribs, talk) 07:25, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Careful removing stuff that appears to have a solid source (Oxford Dictionary of First Names in this case). Here's an online blurb from the book [1]. I've fixed up the etymology (from Christianus, "follower of Christ") per the Oxford book.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 09:08, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1, p.55.

what does this mean?

'where it is often appointed to people in the bad books'

Vandalism, mangled English, esoterica? 60.240.207.146 (talk) 15:14, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like vandalism to me. Someone reverted it though.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 03:24, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"The meaning of Christian" section

Discuss tag: I'm confused as to why this section has this title, and can't suggest an alternative because I don't see why these cases are grouped together. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 15:06, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. This was a recent edit by an IP who just split off the first few names from the following section. I'll restore the original header. Meters (talk) 20:55, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[Oxford-1] Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, Oxford Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1, p.55.

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