See Christian-name on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1899 January 7, Arnold Golsworthy, “Bunderby’s Boys and I: A Narrative with Variations”, in Pearson’s Weekly, number 442, London: C[yril] Arthur Pearson Limited, chapter II, page 462, column 2:",
"text": "Before the boys the Doctor invariably referred to her as “Miss Bunderby,” and on less formal occasions he addressed her as “my dear”; but the name that her godfathers and godmothers gave her at her baptism never to my knowledge transpired. Yet she was a charming creature, and I always feel good when I think of her. I have often wondered whether she had been Christian-named something flippant, like “Maudie” or “Flossie,” in an indiscreet moment, which her father in his riper experience was honestly striving to live down.",
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"text": "Monsieur [Arsène] Wenger, the manager who might have been Christian-named after the club, has altered the Arsenal ethos completely.",
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"text": "Mrs. Haggistoun, Colonel Haggistoun’s widow, a relation of Lord Binkie, and always talking of him, struck the dear unsophisticated girls as rather haughty, and too much inclined to talk about her great relations: but Rhoda was everything they could wish—the frankest, kindest, most agreeable creature—wanting a little polish, but so good-natured. The girls Christian-named each other at once.",
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