Christian name
Example Sentences
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For Indigenous people, she became Malintzin, a phonetic rendition of her Christian name.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026
Gulpilil’s Christian name was foisted upon him at school.
From Fox News • Nov. 29, 2021
The 1963 stylebook decrees: “ ‘Mrs.’ is never used with the Christian name of a woman.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2019
When she looked at you and addressed you by your Christian name, she made it sound like a promise, one that stood on the side of everything that was juicy, smart, black, amused, yours.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
