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But Eostre was the name of a goddess, even at that--the word as a word may not have a religious meaning, but it certainly did at one point. Which makes it doubly weird to use as a personal name honoring a different religion--and, as has been noted, mileage may vary on any explicitly religious name.

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Word-names tend to veer toward the cheesy anyway, in my opinion, and your friend would probably do better with Agnes, Lily, Rachel, or Pascale. Even April would be a marginally better name, and that's the month in which Easter falls next year.