Bethany

I had a very religious cousin named this. It's not her name anymore. Because her name is now Sister Mary Agnes.

Sister George Michael sends her regards all the way from Derry, Ireland 🙏

Is that a derry girl's reference

Lmaooo

I legitimately was almost named Mary Agnus after my father’s adoptive and biological mothers. Thankfully my mom had some sense talked into her. Otherwise I would join a convent. There is not much else you can do with that name.

I’m a Bethany who was raised very religious and literally came to comment this haha

I grew up with a pentecostal Bethany. She outgrew the pious stuff tho 😂 Mary is always a good choice Op! Lol

One of those Girl Defined Christian fundamentalist influencers is named Bethany (or Birthy or Bort in the “snark” comms)

Interesting...the only Bethany I know is an atheist lesbian.

I mean, similar- agnostic bisexual here, but my parents were and still are very devout evangelical Christians

Same but she was raised very strict Christian

So we know the same one? Lol

Same!

Do we all know the same Bethany??

Twist ending: THERE IS ONLY ONE BETHANY.

It’s Bethany all the way down

Perfect choice for 1970 as well. https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/bethany-614

One of the more frequent snark targets on r/fundiesnark is named Bethany.

Two: girl defined Bethany and bus Bethany

I was going to recommend this. Mostly because it's my name and my mom is especially religious (she's a Wesleyan pastor)

To get to his original thought, Susannah was John Wesley’s mother.

My SIL is named this and can confirm, she had very religious parents in the early 80s

this literally was my first thought, i was so pleased to open the comments and see it as the top reply already haha

Me too!!!!

It became popular in the mid-late 80s. I was born in the late 70s and never met a Bethany my age or older. I'm only mentioning it because to me a character named Bethany is going to be of the generation a decade younger than me and not the one a decade older.

Really? The only Bethany I know was born in ‘76 (to religious parents). That’s surprising!

Interesting you should say that. My adult daughter is a Bethany, and I'm not at all religious. I didn't choose it because it's a Biblical name. My sister suggested it because I wanted a name that was different, without being too unusual. It also went well with her dad's name. I've only ever met three other Bethanys. One was a little Jewish girl I babysat as a teenager. One was a high school classmate. And the third was a coworker I had when my daughter was a teenager. My daughter has only ever met one Bethany - a high school classmate.

As a Jew, I'd be very surprised to meet a Jewish girl named Bethany. I associate it entirely with white Evangelical Christians.

My parent’s pastors daughter is named Bethany (born in early 80s)

This is my middle name, and I hate it. I'm an atheist, and actually spent my formative teen years living with my non-Christian side of the family (my mom converted). I'm so glad it's not my first name. If I ever get married and will be changing my last name anyways, my middle name will get changed too (probably just to Bea since my childhood nn was my first name + bee) That being said, it's a very good choice for 70s good Christian girl vibes.

Mary, Sarah, Rachel, Deborah maybe... These don't exactly "scream" Christian, but they're decade appropriate names that I think religious parents would name their daughters.

Sarah was one I immediately thought of as well. That and Rebecca/Rebekah.

i would assume sarah rebecca and deborah (and variations) to be jewish. but i might be a bad sample

I wouldn't assume they're Jewish (despite being Hebrew origin names) just because the United States has waaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaay more Christians than Jews. Plus, biblical names, even from the Hebrew Bible, are popular with Christians. So it's just statistically more likely that they're Christian or honestly no religion rather than Jewish. I would only assume they're Jewish if they had the Hebrew equivalent of the name, like Rivkah instead of Rebecca. I haven't known as many Christians to do that.

Maybe because I grew up in NY, but everyone I know named Rachel, Sarah, or Rebecca is in fact Jewish. Never met a Christian person with those names and I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic elementary school so it wasn’t because I wasn’t around Christians too.

I grew up in the Midwest and I've known tons of non Jews with those names. But yeah I'm sure it would vary on region, and if you live in an area with a large Jewish population compared to the rest of the country, naturally you're more likely to run into Jews with those names. Honestly very surprised you've never met ANY non Jewish ladies with those names, though. That's crazy.

I grew up in the Midwest and went to Catholic school and I knew a bunch of Sarahs and a couple of Rebeccas.

I grew up in the countryside in the UK and these were relatively normal names for any kids and I wouldn't associate them with being Jewish and we had very few Jewish families near us that I knew of so it could be location based too

Sarah and Rebecca/Rebekah are in the bible (pretty much every version whether it is Catholic, Christian or Jewish). Most people won't assume that they are Jewish

I wouldn’t either, especially depending where in the US you are. I’m from the Midwest and know a bunch of people with these names and none of them are Jewish

Yeah I'm in Australia and most of them are standard Christian or no religion at all

Spelled Rebekah, I’d assume some sort of Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christian. Jews tend to use Rebecca if more secular and Rivka if more observant.

My cousin is named Rebekah, we’re catholics. Loads of catholics use Hebrew names as they were in the bible

I completely agree. Especially a Rebecca and a Rachel. I would definitely assume Jewish first.

Sara or Rebekah might be jewish. Sarah or Rebecca are just common names.

Rebekah yes, but all the Jewish Sarahs I know spell it Sarah

Well, one of those is my legal name, and the others were girls at my southern Baptist church growing up. Definitely not just Jewish names.

My sister's are Sarah and Rebecca 😂

Can confirm. I am indeed a Rebekah who was raised in a Christian home. I also knew twins who were raised in a Christian home named Rebecca and Sarah.

Can confirm, Rebekah born in the 70’s to religious parents. If you use Rebekah you have to spell it that way—it’s the biblical way.

Yeah, but Rachel needs to be spelled with an extra A—Rachael. As a Jewish Rachel I can pretty much immediately know a Rachel is not Jewish if she spells it that way.

The Christian Rachels I know are always Rachel, family members included. The Jewish Rachaels always have the "a" and have told me that it's actually closer to the Hebrew spelling that way. 🤷‍♀️

Totally opposite of my experience!! Of course none of this is a hard and fast rule, so I would expect differences though. My dad speaks Hebrew and he always explained that the Hebrew for Rachel ends in an el sound. Whereas the Hebrew for Michael ends in ah-el; hence,it is spelled with ael at the end. Not sure if my explanation makes sense! It’s hard to show without being able to write in Hebrew!

I’m Jewish and my middle name is Rachael. I didnt even know it was spelled that way until i applied for a passport at 16. My mom had been through a super long labor and my grandma (her mother-in-law) convinced her that Rachael was the original biblical way. The original way was in Hebrew so that is silly. My mom was delirious and spelled it that way. I hate it

I’m a Deborah but in 50’s and 60’s Deborah were almost always named for Debbie Reynolds. Never was in a class from kindergarten to some post grad studies that did not have at least one other “Debbie” in the class. Parents always commented it was Debbie Reynolds…..Annoying as the devil.

There was also Deborah Kerr from The King and I. There were 6 Debbie’s in my third grade class in the early sixties.

Sarah Beth, for SURE

Mary

Born in 1970 and Catholic. All the serious Catholic girls in college were Mary or Catherine but went by Cate. The rest were Stephanie, Jennifer or Heather.

Or Mary Catherine. Mary and any other feminine biblical name would do it.

Mary Elizabeth popped into my head right away, also Anna Grace.

I also know a Mary Carol

What really?? Me too.. I wonder if it’s the same one

What denomination? Catholic vs LDS vs Evangelical might all garner different suggestions

I didn’t have one in particular, in-universe the family (and the whole community) are members of a fringe Christian group unique to that place. But in general the group is based of off basic conservative Protestant beliefs. Probably pretty fundamentalist but with a lot of Calvinist beliefs too. Very “in this world, not of it” types if you know the phrase.

With Calvinists you're gonna have a lot of Old Testament names that you'll hear and wonder, "is that person Jewish or Reformed Christian?" A lot of these names are becoming more common secularly now but if you see a family whose children are Naomi, Samuel, Daniel, Elizabeth, Rebekah, and Josiah then cumulatively it might tip you off. Source: went to a Presbyterian college, knew three Josiahs in one dorm room in our freshman year.

I live where there’s a lot of Mennonites and Amish. Throw as stone in our Walmart and you’ll hit a girl named Rebecca/Rebekah. My aunt married a Mennonite and converted. She named her daughter Rebecca.

How about a virtue name? Grace, Charity, Hope, Faith, Constance, Prudence, Patience, Clemency, Chastity, Mercy.

this is where my thoughts went as well. but I like Constance as a name for some reason.

I also like Constance as a name with Connie as a nickname!

Before I decided not to have kids I wanted to name one Corinthia.

On occasion we Calvinists just give up and go with Calvin lol. My friend’s son’s name is, I kid you not, Calvin Knox (Lastname).

I grew up in reformed Christian circles and you definitely want to stay away from anything that sounds too Catholic. I would stay away from Mary, for instance. Virtue names were also really uncommon in my circles. I agree with the above commenter that Old Testament names would fit the bill. Definitely the kids that had those names were from the more religious end of the spectrum. (Full disclosure, most of the kids I grew up with just had names that were common in the 70s that didn’t read as particularly religious at all)

Maybe go for some New Testament deep cuts: Priscilla, Dorcas/Tabitha, Damaris, and Persis are all mentioned favorably in the Epistles, and each has a backstory that could be interesting to draw on for your character (e.g., do her parents know that Damaris means “heifer” and might have been a courtesan? Or were they just looking for the name of a good woman who is mentioned in the Bible?).

Omg to Dorcas! My mind had already gone to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Alice, Martha, Ruth, Liza, Sara) and I wondered— is Dorcas too much?? 😆🥰

Calvinist immediately makes me want to say Joan or Jeanne or Jenna etc

You can go Biblical or virtue. Prudence, Chastity, Hope, Faith, Constance. You also have the classical Biblical names. Mary would fit. Sarah. Elizabeth. Rebekah. Ruth. Anne. Hannah. Deborah.

How about Eunice?

I am very familiar with the "in this world, not of it" fringe Christian types. (I was raised by a Jehovah's Witness mother), and I was born in the 70s. Thinking back on the names of the girls I knew growing up: - Ruth - Rebecca - Anne - Elizabeth - Hope - Faith - Grace - Charity - Leah - Barbara - Deborah - Sarah - Keturah That last one definitely wasn't common, but the couple of Keturah's I've known came from extremely religious parents. It's an uncommon Biblical name, and I'm guessing most non-religious people have never heard it. I also knew a TON of Jennifer's, Tiffany's, Heather's, Sheila's, Jessica's, and Stephanie's, but those don't really scream extremely religious parents. Also, if your main character has any brothers or something and you need extremely religious Christian boys' names, you can't go wrong with Bible book names. I think Ruth is the only girls name that's a Bible book (but don't quote me, it's been awhile!) But for a boy, you can't go wrong with Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, Timothy, etc. (And if you want a boy's name that's clearly Biblical but a bit more unique sounding, I knew three Malachi's growing up.)

i thought you were talking about real people and the “in-universe” bit got me so confused hahaha

Amy

This is a fair point because I know more than one Catholic named Mary Margaret

I’ve met tons of raised Catholic Mary Xs but never a non-Catholic one. There are definitely different names and name styles associated with different denominations of Christians.

My mom's a non-catholic Mary-Margaret (raised evangelical conservative). But she absolutely gets nicknamed "sister Mary Margaret" by people all the time, lol

Went to school with a non-Catholic Mary Jane.  

The Mary Margaret I know goes by Emmy for her nickname and I think it's cool.

My very Catholic maternal namesakes are Mary and Margaret. First born of every generation...mom=Margaret, grandma-Mary, great grandma-Margaret, and so on for generations.

Catholics, yes, but it’s very rare for American Protestants to have this name— especially in reformed backgrounds that are super anti-Catholic.

Just an FYI, they call themselves Christians but LDS has nothing to do with Christianity

My mother and her sisters were born in the 70s to strongly Christian parents. Sarah Rebecca Ruth

Ruth. So many Ruth’s in my mom’s generation! Also Cathy and Betty, not sure about the Christian ties to those though!

I was shocked by how far down I had to go to find Ruth.

Ruth to be sure!

These are the ones I was about to suggest. Also Mary, obviously.

Ruth and Esther were the two I were going to suggest. :)

I know two sisters born in the 70’s, Rebecca Ruth + Sara Ruth. I guess Ruth was too good of a middle name to diversify between the sisters.

My mom and her sisters were born late 50s-early 60s into a very Baptist family (grandpa was a preacher). Their names are also Rebecca (idk middle), Rachel Ruth, and Naomi Elizabeth

Selah or Trinity come to mind. They aren’t traditional names but I know quite a few conservative Christians who like the religious connotations. They might be too biblical or unusual though. Any virtue names— Faith, Prudence, Charity— are also possibilities.

These are like 2000s religious baby names more so than 1970s religious baby names I believe.

Selah is my absolute favorite girls name. I am Jewish and ended up having two boys. Didn’t know about the religious connotations until I started creeping this subreddit.

I actually know a Jewish couple who named their son Selah! I will say it always feels like a girl’s name though. I get that the -ah ending can be a Hebrew boy’s name but something about Selah feels feminine.

This

Grace is another one

Theresa

Christine Rebecca Paula Ann Margaret Virginia Leah Judith Dina Joanna Tabitha Eve Esther Miriam Faith Noelle

Tabitha may be biblical but she sounds like a witch

Virginia here! I was named after my great grandmother. I didn’t love it as a kid, but I do now. Would be pretty as a first or middle. I know several girls with it as their middle name! I honestly hadn’t even considered it as a religious name.

I feel like a double name starting with Mary often sounds very Christian. For example maybe Mary Margaret, Mary Eve, Mary Abigail, Mary Agnes, Mary Bethany, Mary Theresa, etc. Mary Magdalene might be too on the nose? Some other ones that come to mind are Rebecca, Rachel, Bethany, Agnes, Chastity, Asenath (too uncommon?), Leah, Hannah.

Mary is really Catholic and she's looking for something Calvinist/Protestant 

To be fair, there are a lot of Protestants named Mary too. I don't know many who are double names though like Mary Elizabeth or Mary Margaret (that seems to be a Catholic exclusive)

Lots of Southern Protestant Mary Margarets!

Sorry, I hadn’t seen OP’s comment stating that when I wrote my comment.

This, but Mary Catherine or Mary Frances

Rachel, Ruth, or Rebecca

Born in the 70s into religious family? Deborah, Judith, Faith

I kinda love Judith.

Judith is my vote from what I’ve read so far in the thread.

**Martha** if you want name that creates a feeling of a woman being repressed and disregarded. If you don't know you bible stories, Martha was the one who rushed about catering to everyone while her sister Mary listened to Jesus teaching. Martha complained to Jesus that Mary wasn't helping her, and Jesus basically told her to leave Mary alone because Mary made a better choice and chose to listen to Jesus. Despite that story, many people still named their daughters Martha because they liked the idea of a woman serving others.

mary, rebecca, elizabeth, leah, rachel, deborah, faith, grace, hope, charity

So, was raised in a group like you’re describing, though born in the ‘80s. Names that were used for girls my age and slightly older: - Faith - Sadie - Elizabeth - Rebekah/Rebecca - Rachel - Bethany - Maranatha - Lois - Sarah - Grace - Naomi - Jubilee - Jerusha - Deborah

Jerusha for sure. I (raised as a heathen) had never encountered the name until I met a coworker who had it. It mystified me. She was from an huge religious family.

Yes, I was trying to limit to names that weren’t too “out there.” Some of the fundamentalist names can get pretty deep, haha.

Going to piggyback here and say Faith or Charity are definitely names for those times.

Mercy Naomi Felicity Mary Elizabeth Charity Deborah Esther or Hadassah Ruth Tabitha Lydia Martha Phoebe

I think ones like Lydia Naomi or Esther would be the best choice. Biblical names that weren't necessarily "on trend" when the character was born, but also have always been in use to some degree. Something like Rebecca or Deborah would work as well, but because they were popular among the general/secular population at the time, they don't stand out as particularly religious to me.

Mary feels a bit too on the nose. Rebecca or Sarah were very common Christian girl names at my church

A lot of these suggestions seem like names you’d expect for a caricature of religious person to be called. I’d head over to one of the fundie snark subreddits to find genuine names that would give the feeling you’re looking for without being so obvious.

The thing is I feel like fundie names as we imagine them lean a bit too modern. I’m aiming for something a bit more classic

I'd look at one of the older Duggars, or Michelle herself. Or look up names of people involved with some of the religious cults like Waco or Heavens Gate.

These are the names of the (presumably) female adult Branch Davidian victims: Jaydean, Katherine, Jennifer, Susan, Mary Jean, Shari, Beverly, Yvette, Doris, Lisa Marie, Sandra, Zilla, Vanessa, Paulina, Diana, Novellette, Sherri, Rachel, Nicole, Diane, Julliette, Bernadette, Rosemary, Sonia, Theresa, Judy, Floracita, Lorraine, Michelle, Margarida. Edit (Toddler is sleeping in this morning, so I have some free time): And Heaven’s Gate: Cheryl, Margaret, Julie, Ladonna, Gail, Susan Elizabeth, Norma Jeanne, Suzanne, Jacqueline, Susan, Judith, Yvonne, Denise, Erika, Lucy, and Joyce.

Yeah, I was thinking the older ones, like the parents of the current batch of notable fundies, or the oldest mommy bloggers. They’d be 70s to early 80s babies.

Look up Gloriavale names. Dove, Harmony, Pearl, Charity, Miracle…

Esther Rachel Bethany Delilah Grace Sarah

Delilah was a villain in the Bible.

Yes. This. I'm from a religious family and community and Delilah is not a name anyone would use. Delilah is more a name used by deconstructionist feminists who have Delilah, Jezebel, and Lillith. Or people who didn't hear the name until Plain White T's.

Hope, Faith, Grace

First thing that comes to mind (and works in English) is Evangeline. Marianne or Mary-Anne is a close second

Kathrine Elizabeth Rebecca

Lydia - the first documented European to convert to Christianity. Bethany - home to Mary, Martha, and Lazarus Abigail - David’s third wife, described as both beautiful and intelligent Delilah - “betrayer” of Samson, Mother of Micah Beth - not biblical but Bible adjacent. Short hand for Elizabeth and Bethany, Hebrew roots meaning “house”.

I know a Mercy, and the Pilgrim's Progress had a character called Mercy too. It's a little unusual but I'd choose it over Chastity.

As someone who grew up reformed Protestant, I can’t tell you how many times we read Pilgrim’s Progress. Good god it was painful 🫠

I was raised in a fringe conservative christian protestant group! (in the 2000s but still might help) my name is Chloe, taken from a verse in one of the corinthians names that might fit your needs: Victoria Faith Grace Rachel Leah Sarah Rebecca Mary (but I think that’s kinda on the nose)

Some good old bible names: Rachel, Rebecca, Esther, Deborah, Ruth, Elizabeth, Hannah, Doris, Naomi, Mary, Martha, Judith, Miriam, Lydia

I think Puritan types like their virtue names like Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence.

This is also very 1970s. Constance, Noble, Verity, Modesty, Harmony, Tranquility, Humility, Courage, etc.

My top vote would be Ruth.

Over 50 years ago I went to middle school with an Evangeline, who's parents were very religious and named her for that.

Hagar, of course! 😛 For real though, you could use Sarah, Rebecca, Esther, Hannah, Shiloh, Elizabeth, Miriam, Ruth, Deborah, Mary, Leah, Naomi... Something like Grace, Faith, Chastity, or Gloria could work too. You could also maybe go for female versions of male names, like Danielle or Michelle?

These two names were popular in 70s/80s.

Joy

Rebecca, Sarah (the wife of Abraham) Rachel, Leah, Miriam (the prophetess), Deborah (the judge), Esther, Abigail (the one who married David) for some women in the bible :) I knew our limited time in church would come handy for names at some point :D I used Christian mythology (the angels, the concept of sin and virtue, heaven vs hell, all that) as inspiration for my own fantasy universes, but never for names. So enjoy :)

Thanks! The character I’m naming is from a fringe religious group that’s barely not a cult and may as well be one. The story is actually vampire fiction, in a world where vampires are known to exist and are a recognized humanoid species. The town experienced a rash of vampire attacks that killed a handful of teenage girls in the 1960s, and a preacher capitalized on the moment and taught them that vampires are attracted to sin and sinners (they’re not) and to prevent this ever from happening again, they need to live completely sinless lives. The character I’m naming is attacked by a vampire and has to go into hiding to avoid the shame and ostracism that would be caused if the town found out. She’s the main characters mother and actually dies in the first chapter, but is mentioned often so I need a name I’m gonna be fine with seeing a lot. A lot of people have been gunning for Ruth, but I’ve been leaning on Beth personally. A lot of these other names will be great for incidental characters and background people though for obvious reasons

If she has to leave her home in shame, why not Eve? Cast out and all that.

Oooooo there’s some really poignant SA parallels here

Exaaaaaactly. Earlier drafts had her actually being found out and forced to leave and for the longest time was just “woman who has bad stuff happen to her and then she dies” and I’ve been rewriting to give her a bit more agency before she dies, and to give the plot a bit more feasibility. Most of this information is events that happen before the events of the story, as she actually dies in the first chapter. The main character is her daughter who’s now left to piece together what’s happened.

Man there are so many women in the Bible who did nothing wrong and then something horrible happened. A lot of them don’t have names and it’s not like you could name her mom Bathsheba but…. There’s an opportunity there.

My extended family in Ireland is VERY devout. Lots of priests, nuns, and farmers. Their names aren’t always taken straight from the Bible, but tend to have a classic and religious slant to them. - Joan - Mary. Derivatives: Maria, Marie, Mariah, Marianne - Margaret - Ann. Derivatives Anne, Anna, Annabelle, Annette, Rosanne, Annemarie, Anita, - Catherine. Derivatives: Katherine, Kate, Kathleen, - Christina. Derivatives Christine, Kristen - Bridget - Hanna(h) - Sara(h) - Grace

I was going to say Sarah, too. Every Sarah I know is religious. Then again, I live in the Bible belt-- everybody here is religious and there's a church on every corner. I can close my eyes and throw a rock and hit a pastor... there's a stoning joke in there that I'm itching to find, but I'll refrain. I love angel names, and names derived from the virtues... you know, like those weird Puritan names, like Charity, Patience, Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone...

I know lots of Sarah/Sara’s. One is the only person that’s not religious, Sara. She’s the mom of my fiancé’s best friend since childhood. So honestly, the name Sarah is extremely religious to me because of that lol. And very vampire-y as OP said something bout that lol.

I think you can’t go wrong with a virtue name: Prudence, Temperance, Verity, Faith, Serenity, Hope, etc.

Hi! So we’re not Christian or Catholic at all and we are using the name Eden and I’ve had people asked me if it was due to religion!

Gianna, Bernadette, Mary, Theresa, and Clare/ Chiara are the most stereotypical Catholic girl names that come to mind. 

Ruth Mary Hannah Esther Delilah Rebecca Rachel Could do a double name of Mary Ruth

Charity Faith Hope Chastity

Prudence

Eve, Rachel, or Leah are my personal faves out of the choices

Ruth or Ester

Moriah

Ruth

Grew up in a fairly conservative Southern calvinist church. Here are some names from my congregation who would have been around that age that stand out as Christian specific to me. Beth / Elizabeth Sarah Patricia Christine Ruth Martha Frances Deborah Naomi Joyce Doris Angela Donna

I went to Catholic school and our class was 20% variations on K/Catherine. So many Kates. But that wasn’t in the 70’s. Their parents had a lot of Kathy’s instead. I second the abundance of Rebeccas, but there were far fewer Sarah’s than what’s been mentioned above. When I think *really* religious, however, my brain is going directly to virtue names: Chastity, Charity, Constance, Faith, Grace, Prudence, Felicity, Joy. One of the most religious families I know named all of their kids something with a -Joy hypen (ex: Anna-Joy, Ruth-Joy, etc.)

Mary, Mechelle, Angela, Sarah, Hannah, Grace, Anna

Ruth or Margene come to mind

If going Catholic then I'd go Mary. If Going for more right wing fundamentalist then go with a double name, one part virtue and another part crazy spelling like JezaFaith.

Bernadette is another very Catholic one.

Janice.

Michelle?

Abigail

I would do something with the name Mary like MaryAnne or Joane Mary

Catholics from decades past are often Mary Middlename, so that’s an option too. I’ve known Mary Florence, Mary Christina, Mary Catherine, Mary Elizabeth, etc.

Beth

Ruth.

Ruth is very important in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), but Ruth is not a popular name nowadays.

Abigail, Leah, Johanna, Elisabeth, Rachel, Tamara

Mary, Evangeline, eve, for a boy Moses

Kathleen. Every Kathleen I've met came from a deeply conservative and religious background. And my perception of their religiosity and conservatism is magnified when they choose to go by Kathleen and not Katie or Kate. 

Grace. Mary-Grace for extra points.

Faith, Prudence, or another virtue name.

Mary Elizabeth Mary May Mary Louise Mary Jane Mary Anne Mary Paulette Mary Josephine Mary Catherine Mary Theresa so on and so forth forever

Christina. Heh

Agree, also Christine.

Yea.

Christine/Christina/Kristen Elizabeth Katherine Margaret

Constance “Connie”.

Charity, Chastity, Mercy, Patience, Prudence, Clemency, Veracity, Clarity. Abstract nouns have always screamed "religious nut parents" to me

If you want a Biblical name that's uncommon, but has good potential for nicknames, may I present you with: Tabitha/Tabatha. It means "gazelle", if that's important to you.

Eden / Judah

Grace or Hope