Religious Girl Names
Names carrying a devotional meaning rather than merely a scriptural bearer — praise, mercy, blessing, faith. They cross traditions more than the categories suggest, since the same Semitic roots run through Hebrew, Arabic and the Punjabi that borrowed from both.
11 names, uncommon — 100 to 499 a year, in the United States
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Mercy Mercy is a girl's name from the English virtue word, adopted by Puritans in the seventeenth century.Latin, English 338 in 2025
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