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Personally I like names that will travel well. My children are Peter, Caroline and Beatrice, all good Christian names except that I haven't got a religious bone in my body and the same goes for my husband and kids. Beatrice has family significance, the others we just liked. And they feature in all the European languages/countries that we and the children are ever likely to visit, give or take a twitch to the pronunciation. If that means that their names feature in the Christian tradition, well that's tough. (Though I did avoid the charming name of two of my great-grandmothers: Christiana!)