Egyptian Coptic names?

Question

I need a good name for a character in a book that I'm writing. It's a male member of the Egyptian Coptic Church. I'm not very familiar with Coptic surnames and familynames. Do you have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try Amides or possibly Ideodaniach. Both are heavy with power name-wise.

Answer 2

Coptic Names

Answer 3

Girgis, Ehab, Reda, Emad, Hanna, Ashraf, Ayad, Sherif, Hani (Hany), Raafat

Answer 4

Mina is a boy call in Egypt yet once you decide on an equivalent Egyptian call it would be "Narmer". the two Mina and Narmer are the names of the comparable individual who's the 1st Pharaoh of Egypt, the single that united the North and South kingdoms under one banner and formed Egypt ;)

Answer 5

Excluding the name Mohammad, I think you can use any Arabic sounding name.

The Coptics I have known had names that just sounded Arabic.

Answer 6

I had an Egyptian Coptic roommate, his name was Shareef, and his full name is ‘Shareef Fouad Hilmi’. One of the professors at my school was also Coptic his name was Ashraf Fouad, my ophthalmologist is also Coptic and his name is Dr. Farid Shafik. I would say ‘Fouad’ is a good choice, I think it’s a very common Egyptian Coptic name, ‘Ashraf’ is also common.

Answer 7

Coptic is merely an Egyptian branch of Christian church, the original church by the way. Their name selection would probably be Arabic since Egypt is an Arab country. They conduct their services in a language that is close to the ancient Egyptian tongue, much like the Catholic Church used to hold services in Latin.

Answer 8

An Arab or biblical name will do, like Imad, Adel, Yossef or Zakaria

Answer 9

Hannah, Shenudah, Botross, Gergess that's what i can come up with for now.

Answer 10

Here's a book that you can look at online for some ideas.
www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6618.html