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in reply to a message by Felie
Not everyone who has used this name is making a religious statement.
The first time I ever came across a child named Trinity was on an airplane flight back around 1990 when I sat next to a woman who had a toddler daughter named Trinity. She told me the name had been chosen because her husband was a professional jockey and one of the horses he had ridden had been called Trinity! And when I asked her about the religious meaning she said "We're Mormons and don't believe in the Trinity."
I think the name has also been used as a transfer from the name of several rivers in the western United States and so is sometimes considered a "cowboy" name without any reference to the original religious meaning.
Though personally I would never use it because as a Christian who does accept the Trinity it seems to me it's the same thing as naming a child God.
The first time I ever came across a child named Trinity was on an airplane flight back around 1990 when I sat next to a woman who had a toddler daughter named Trinity. She told me the name had been chosen because her husband was a professional jockey and one of the horses he had ridden had been called Trinity! And when I asked her about the religious meaning she said "We're Mormons and don't believe in the Trinity."
I think the name has also been used as a transfer from the name of several rivers in the western United States and so is sometimes considered a "cowboy" name without any reference to the original religious meaning.
Though personally I would never use it because as a Christian who does accept the Trinity it seems to me it's the same thing as naming a child God.
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No matter what reason the parents used the name, to the indifferent onlooker it totes some heavy religious baggage.
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The Trinity River / Trinity Hills have featured prominently in the growth of a sizeable chunk of the marijuana in the US. Many growers have / have had land there. I’ve spent a lot of time in Humboldt and Trinity counties, and a friend of mine who bought a cheap pickup from a grower (they all have pickups) named his truck Trinity after the river/county where the truck was from.
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