Pastor John, you are so right!
Here is one of many references I can find online:
How many times does word “Christian” appear in the Bible?
In the King James Version it appears 3x: (Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and I Peter 4:16)
BUT
The New Testament manuscripts were written in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic originally not English as English did not exist at this point. The Greek word for Christian found in these passages is: Christiano meaning a follower of Christos (Christ). Christos means anointed/Messiah. Mashiach is the word for Messiah in Hebrew and Paraclete is the word for Christ in Hebrew. The original disciples never had any formal “name” for themselves but were later called Christians by the Romans who occupied Antioch Greece in which the word had a very different meaning in those ancient days!
Ron