Corrections are part of responsible reference work, not a sign that the original was wrong. Names research improves as sources, canons, and reader questions sharpen a page, and this site is built to be corrected.
What you can report
The most useful reports concern accuracy rather than style. Priorities are:
- a meaning or etymology that is wrong, or a later association presented as the direct meaning;
- a biblical identification that is mistaken, including a name placed on the wrong classification axis;
- a canon claim that misstates which traditions include a book or figure;
- a saint, feast day, patronage, or historical date that is inaccurate or unsourced;
- a popularity figure that does not match the official data or its stated year;
- a broken link, a rendering error, or an internal label that should not be public.
Style suggestions are welcome too, but accuracy and clarity come first.
How to report it
Email corrections@christiannames.org. Please name the page you are writing about, quote the exact sentence or figure in question, and say what you believe is correct.
What evidence helps
A correction is easiest to act on when it points to a checkable source. Helpful evidence includes a standard lexicon entry for an etymology (such as Brown-Driver-Briggs, HALOT, or BDAG), a chapter and verse for a scriptural claim, an official church calendar for a feast day, a recognized reference work for a saint or historical date, and the relevant official release for popularity data. A claim from a general baby-name website is not usually enough on its own, because those sources are what the site is often correcting against.
How corrections are reviewed
Each report is checked against the site's source hierarchy: biblical text and standard lexicons first, then official calendars and church-history references, then academic and official statistical sources, with popular lists treated as evidence of common claims rather than as authority. Where the evidence supports a change, the page is updated and its review date is refreshed. Where a question is genuinely uncertain or depends on tradition or canon, the page is updated to state the uncertainty plainly rather than to pick a side.
Correction history
Material corrections, meaning changes that alter a classification, a meaning, a canon claim, or a sourced fact, are recorded so that readers and AI systems citing the site can see that it maintains itself. Minor copy edits are not logged individually.
19 July 2026: Corrected several saint, Scripture-reference, and etymology details across Agnes, Cecilia, Perpetua, Gregory, Anselm, Mercy, Malachi, Augustine, and Lucia following an editorial review. Changes included the count of women martyrs named in the Roman Canon, Malachi's primary Scripture reference, the removal of an unsupported etymology link on Gregory, and the separation of Western and Eastern Orthodox feast dates for Augustine.
Why this page exists
A reference that cannot be corrected cannot be trusted. Publishing a clear correction route, naming the evidence that counts, and keeping a visible record of material changes are part of what makes the site usable as a source. For the fuller sourcing approach, see the methodology and sources pages.