I've read that biblical names were often used by Non Conformist families. This is a subject close to my heart as I have a biblical name. 
Rather off-topic, but I like the Spanish use of Maria-Jesus for girls and Jesus-Maria for boys. I have not come across a British child named Jesus.
I did come across a Jesus Christ in the UK phone book some years back. If only people knew where all these names really came from!
First of all the Ancient Egyptians believed that each new King was also the resurrected Son of God whom they called IWSA or IUSA (according to Massey). This goes back many thousands of years. It was pronounced something like IOSA and that is still the spelling for Jesus in Scots Gaelic. The Greeks changed it to IESOUS and you know the rest. The stories about the Egyptian Jesus were very much the same except that the miracles were mostly to do with Heavenly events and not on Earth. The word KHRST is also Egyptian and it appears on the sides of most coffins containing mummies which have been anointed with embalming fluids and natron. It really means 'Buried' according to the Egyptian-English dictionaries. As often happens the meaning changed over the centuries.
Rebecca is interesting as it was changed to Beketaten during the Aten years at the end of the 18th Dynasty, but no doubt changed back when Akhenaten/Moses was deposed by the Establishment in Uasar along with the priests of Ymn. (Amen).
Abraham comes from the throne name of the Pharaoh Sheshi, which was Ma'ibre - syllables reversed in speech therefore 'Ibram'.
David was the name of 5 Kings of Egypt called Dayhut - in hieroglyphs DHWT, then TWT.
Solomon comes from the names of 4 Kings of Egypt called Ymn Htp. Htp means Peace or Rest in Egyptian, but it was SALIM to the Hebrews who Ruled Egypt from about the 14th Dynasty to the end of the 19th Dynasty at least. They were known as Salim Amen then Salomon. Ymn Htp III matches just about everything we are told about Solomon in 1 Kings chapters 6 and 7 - down to the measurements of his Palace in Luxor. (E.g. the 80,000 stone quarry men, the 317 ladies in waiting, the 12 admin districts, the Chariotry, the Temple - also in Luxor, the picturesque glazed tiles - as described in the Koran etc. etc.).
Joshua has to come from the Pharaohs called Djoser. Joshua the Bethshemite in 1 Samuel 6 could only be a King of Egypt to own a field in Egypt - Jeremiah confirms that Bethshemesh was Heliopolis or On, so the great stone of Abel would have been his Pyramid. The later Joshua son of Nun has to have been Horemheb MeriYmn (Miriam) whose throne name was Djoser HEPREW Setepenre. Nun or Nnu or Noah was the God of the Heavenly Deep.
Joseph was the Chief Minister and father in law of Ymn Htp III (Solomon) and we know this because of his ushabti's which use the same description as given in the bible and because he was indeed Head of Chariotry and entombed with a Chariot.
Just about every other patriarch can be found in the names of Egyptian Kings, e.g. Isaac, Peleg, Salitis, Thara etc.
The first two chapters of Luke appear in 4 scenes and the story told in hieroglyphs in temples at Luxor and Denderah dating back 3,500 years. Main difference with the gospel story is that it was the Virgin Goddess Ahst-MERI (beloved of Isis) who conceived by the Holy Spirit Kneph, but it was the living Queen of Egypt who then gave birth to the Holy Child. They even had Carols.
