I used to work with a guy named Atilla.
No, I never called him “Hon.”
A long dead ancestral uncle of mine was named Jason Lucifer. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if his illiterate parents had just stuck whatever name they’d heard most recently during a sermon on him.
In the black American ghettos, there is a culture called the Nation of Gods and Earths, or ‘the five percenters’.
In that culture, it is common for people to name their children different renditions of ‘god’.
Me’ssiah
Divine Goddess Earth
Divine God Allah… and so on.
The parents also take similar names, but they usually don’t take the steps of legally changing their own names (sometimes they do). But very commonly, they will give their children those names, legally, at time of birth.
Pro’ly not, given that Yael was a Canaanite name, anyway… Joel works, though!
And someone calling out “Oh, Eli” – not too uncommon a name in English, even outside the Bible Belt – is saying, literally, “OMG!” 
Let me guess…
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I was in a little town in Germany called Wertheim in the late 80’s serving in the Army. We had a new guy show up and his first name was Lord. (He went by his middle name which I can’t recall)
The cherry on top of that story is that his dad was a preacher.
To justify getting a Blu-ray player, of course.
If there have been any mentions of these bad guys I’ve missed them. Attila’s as close as I’ve seen.
Surely there must be some iconoclastic mommies and daddies out there with the desire to ruin their child’s life for him or her.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we wound up with a President like Beelzebub Bartlett or something?
I know a little girl named Athena, and a middle-aged guy named Vishnu. Actually, I know a few Athenas but other than the little girl, they are Greek.
I knew a guy with the first name Lucifer. Everyone called him Lucy. He was Bajan (native of Barbados)–I don’t really know if it is a common name down there or not.
I went to high school with a (gorgeous) girl named Athena. She was of Greek extraction.
I did not know that.
My mother’s name is Jehovina – “Little God(dess).” My grandfather thought it was silly to be able to name boys “Jesus,” but have girls be deprived of “divinity.”
Ahem. As a fellow Mythos inspired name, I would just like to nitpick that Cthulhu isn’t technically a “god” in the sense like the other names, more like an intergalactic alien being with cultish worshippers. He’s not even the strongest creature in the Cthulhu Mythos, that designation is for Azathoth, who is actually a lot more godlike than our friend Cthulhu
Some years ago, I lived down the hall from a Jamaican man whose first name was Thankgod. His wife and children all had pretty conventional names.
I have a second cousin Thor. His New Age dad gave him the name for reasons obscure to the rest of the family; we have no Scandinavian heritage to justify such a move.
Sorry, I didn’t get that. 
I admit it, you whooshed me.