I've told you before that Wikpedia is evil, right? It keeps making me think...

[conuly]

Current thought: With all the names that pop up in the Bible, why are so many of them not common in English?

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[conuly]

How do you mean "mutated over time"? Generally, I think that a Biblical name doesn't mutate in common usage while the name in the Bible stays static - at least, not so it's unrecognizable. We may name our children Marie sometimes instead of Mary, but we not only recognize it as a French name, we recognize it as a form of Mary.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Is Mary like that in the bible?

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/The-Virgin-Mary