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Re: Name of Christian (was: Vocab #5)

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Sunday, April 28, 2002, 6:22
On 27 Apr 02, at 15:00, Danny Wier wrote:

> >I've never seen the name Christian (without trailing -e or -a) being > >used in a female sense, though I keep hearing that it exists in the > >US. Weird. > > What about Christina? And there's the reporter Christiane Amanpour (her last > name, ironically, is Iranian).
I would consider those both female (together with Christine). But plain "Christian", spelled that way, I have only seen as a male name. All four names (-ian, -ine, -ina, -iane) are reasonably common in Germany. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>