Religious 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.

58 names, most popular first in United States

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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.

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