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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
I was always amused by Biblical names that didn't take. We could have mothers naming their boys Magog, Hazarmaveth and Arphaxad.
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As if we needed even more names based on the Bible. I have always found
this site very fascinating when wanting to know the etymologies or the naming customs of different people. But it has also traced so many names back to the Bible that it's not even funny. Most of the Finnish ones as well.
Which, on the other hand, has convinced me that my parents intentionally played a practical joke on me when they gave me three names (instead of the usual two) of which
not even one is derived from the Bible. Then again, my family in the ancient past also decided to choose a surname combined from two distinct landmarks which we don't really even have anywhere in the country, so I guess we just like doing everything backwards.
