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The Puritans would definitely have seen the name as having religious associations, or Roman Catholic associations at least, and would have objected to it strongly.
The Puritans who settled Massachusetts made it a crime to celebrate the holiday (punishment: five shillings).
In a particularly fanciful metonym, the Narragansetts referred to the Puritans as Wood-burners .
The Puritans substituted such names for the others because they did not believe in honoring, as they would have put it, Popish saints.
In a very general sense the Puritans can be said to have added a few names to the stock which modern parents draw upon, but the author obviously did not mean that.