Tonari no Kuderella o Amayakashitara, Uchi no Aikagi o Watasu Koto ni Natta - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[Extreme-Tactician]

I did claim that it's primarily used by women and has more female variants than male, and that I may have been more charitable about this curious detail in this story if not for the author's suspect naming choices past that (like having a woman's baptismal name be "Elijah"). You have anything to say to that?

Elijah has been used for female people before. I've mentioned this before, but it's usually spelled as Aaliyah. Just like how Jehovah can be pronounced with a j and a y, so can Aaliyah.

 

[Eighty-six]

Elijah has been used for female people before.

Unlike previously noted names, "Elijah" is a distinctly male name, by (Hebrew) origin. Feminine variants aren't spelt or pronounced the same way, and it doesn't appear that any feminine variants are in notable use in English.

"Aaliyah" isn't a related name. It's Arabic; it means "lofty", and is a feminine form of "Ali". There's the feminine Hebrew "Aliya", but it's also completely unrelated to "Elijah".

There is a possibility that an extreme minority of women (in the States, at least) are named "Elijah" and these double digit amounts out of however many hundreds of thousands of annual births aren't all just filing errors.

Most importantly, this is supposed to be a baptismal name. A woman being given or choosing a male baptismal name isn't normally allowed in Christian traditions where you normally assume a name to be baptized by-- and this is unlikely to be noted as an exceptional matter in-story.

Her namesake is either the prophet Elijah or some other venerable figure whose namesake was ultimately the prophet Elijah.

I've mentioned this before, but it's usually spelled as Aaliyah. Just like how Jehovah can be pronounced with a j and a y, so can Aaliyah.

None of what you said allows you to pronounce an "ə" (or "ɑ") (the first syllable in "Aaliyah") as an "ɪ" (the first syllable in "Elijah"), or vice versa.

 

[legendary_swordsman]

She looks nothing like a European

Yeah looks more like regular japanese girl

 

[legendary_swordsman]

people wondering about her baptismal name and stuff, while I'm here wondering why she's called "Yui" when the rest of her name is all english...

I know it's weird for her not to have a standard European name. Her name is japanese as is her look, nothing European about her

 

[0181sam]

Reminds me of haganai... Religious school setting is something i kinda like

 

[Bobtoad1]

Maybe it's explained in later chapters but the idea of a member of English nobility attending a Catholic school is absolutely hilarious. It's about the same as if I was writing a story about a Chinese exchange student from Tokyo visiting America.

 

[iSiffrin]

I don't know why Japan has a hard-on for royalty (Prince/Princess) where I come from the concept is mostly laughed at.
You're born royal you didn't earn it.

"I'm a descendant of the family that had the most violent army"

 

[Shiirooooooooo]

people who read this manga. you need to master piano and have 90 on charm and face to make a princess church girl blush with only 1 compliment.

 

[xXPenisXx]

this dude's name is naomi lmao

 

[fform]

Villiers? English!? No.

Lol

Writer needs to at least respect the difference between French and English if they want to make up a fantasy.

 

[HunterCO]

A Christian romcom? New gimmick everyday lol

 

[GrumpyGizmo]

Yeah the misconception of christianity by the author is abysmal but I give them credit for actually placing Christianity as an axis of a romcom rather than demonizing it like 99.9% of the japanese authors do. So it's interesting. Plus the story has the Angel next door spoils me rotten template. That's my sh*t 🗿🗿🗿🗿

 

[FearlessDawg]

Catholicism jumpscare, that was really out of nowhere lmao

 

[Beregorn]

Since everyone has already beaten the "Elijah" horse to a pulp, let me just add that it is quite uncharacteristic of a catholic school to forbid work outside school...