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I don't agree with your characterization of Cohen as "inappropriate." It's a non-proper noun in some contexts, if I'm not mistaken, and it's a surname that is considered respectable - so I suppose it is considered appropriate.

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But I do sympathize with your objecting to the use of particular religious titles, as first names of people not in the religion - because it just sounds SO dumb to me. My initial reaction to, say, Christian babies named Cohen and Jewish babies named Deacon and Protestant babies named Bishop is, I get the same reaction I had when I found three slugs on my kitchen floor last night and I go, [drama face] what is THAT doing there? Um, like no! You can't just put that there!

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Anyway, Cohen, whatever. Another surname name that I don't like because it seems like a choice made for shallow reasons. But it's decent, and I wouldn't say inappropriate, and I'm not "offended" by it.

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