Coptic Christian Names

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This is a list of names commonly used by Coptic Christians, some are of Coptic origin, while many are Arabized forms of Latin and Greek names, or are Latin and Greek names popularly used by Copts in their original form. In recent years, saints names of Italian, English and German origin have also been popularly used. Saints names from the Armenian, Ethiopian and Assyrian Churches are also found, as well as secular Arabic names derived from words such as abstract nouns and nature, specific Arabic names only used among Egyptian Christians include Habib (name of a post-Islamic Coptic saint), Fadi (meaning savior, used in reference to Jesus) and Saliba (from the Arabic word for cross or crucifix). Some of these names in the list are pulled from names of Christian saints from all over the world and their translations into modern Egyptian Arabic.

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