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Simon - religious name?

Frogger5Frogger5 member
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Hello!

I posted a few months ago here and got some great responses. We've since found out it's a boy. Our number one name is Simon. I just looked it up on behind the name, and the meaning is all about bible people. My husband and I aren't religious, so is that weird? I never heard it as a particularly religious name, but now I'm wondering about how others hear it.

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Re: Simon - religious name?

  • be888be888 member
    Simon the Zealot was one of the Apostles. It is a nice name, and I don't see anything wrong with using it. I feel differently about clearly religious name like Christian, Moses, or Jesus.

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  • tdenentdenen member
    Agree with previous post, a more obvious biblical name might be strange if you aren't religious, but Simon doesn't shout CHRISTIAN to me. So many common names are biblical that no one thinks twice about... Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Joseph, Benjamin, Sara, Ruth, etc. If you love it, use it. It's a great name. Congrats!!!
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  • whenwillieversleepwhenwillieversleep member
    Simon is in the Bible, but Jesus changed his name to Peter anyway. Simon was his birth name, but Peter was his new Christian name that Jesus assigned him. Doesn't sound "Religious" to me. If anything, Peter is more of a "religious" name. Simon is a classic.
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  • Frogger5Frogger5 member
    Phew, thanks, guys! I really didn't want to go back to the drawing board :).
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  • kmvisiolikmvisioli member
    There are actually quite a few Simons in the Bible, but it doesn't scream "Biblical name" like Hezekiah would.
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  • 4N6s4N6s member
    I don't think it's weird...
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  • allthecheeseallthecheese member
    What everyone else said, exactly.

    The bible is history, and the names of the people in there, were also used by people that were not famous from the stories. And of course they have got handed down through the generations till now. I'm religious but I do not get these people that want to name all their children "Bible names" yes those names are in the bible but they're NOT ONLY in the bible and not limited to only religious people. At the same time as famous bible characters wore their names, non religious people in the same country wore the same names.
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