If your DCs names had a 'theme' would you feel obliged to stick to it?

[Ceolas]

All four of my children have biblical names. Sort of by design but all names we both love.

Now we are expecting DC5 in a fortnight and have chosen a biblical boy's name but can't seem to agree on a girl's one. Somehow I feel obliged but I'm not sure if DC5 would feel 'left out' if her name were not from the Bible.

Is it just pregnancy hormeones going mad?

[hester]

I would probably feel obliged to disrupt the theme, but that's just my problem with themed family names

I can't imagine DC5 would feel left out by having a slightly different kind of name. Just go for the name you love!

[cookielove]

i know of siblings two are themed the last not even close to theme she seems not to care whatsoever

[mavornia]

mmm - biblical names aren't necessarily as obvious as, say, flower or nature themed names so I might be inclined to go for another biblical name in case she did wonder why hers was different from the others

i love behindthename.com for baby name ideas - here is a link to their biblical girls' names

www.behindthename.com/nmc/bibl_f.php

[mavornia]

I love Abigail, Tabitha and Eden - and I don't think they scream "bible name" in the same way that Mary or Martha might

[Bellsa]

Only please don't call her Abishag. Biblical and beautiful though it may be.

[Ceolas]

All the others are 'classic' names and not immediately obvious as biblical names.

From the Bible, I like Naomi. DH likes Miriam. I think these are more obviously 'biblical'. He hates Naomi, but I'm not 100% opposed to Miriam. Just not a name I immediately love. We are both lukewarm on Ruth.

Non biblical contenders are Eleanor, Alice and Norah...

[Bellsa]

I LOVE Naomi-good thing as it's my niece's name! Not keen on Miriam. And isn't Eleanor biblical?

[Ceolas]

His problem with Naomi is it tends to be pronounced Ny-omi around these parts, rather than Nay-omi, as I prefer.

Don't think Eleanor is biblical...

[Tillyscoutsmum]

I suppose it depends on how obviously biblical your other dc's names are ? Joseph, Adam, Matthew, Luke, Jacob, Joshua, Gabriel, Zachary for example are popular names without being immediately obvious as biblical names iyswim ? Elijah, Ezekial, Abraham and Noah are a bit more obvious imho

I like Alice on your list. I like Mary, Eve and Martha as biblical girl's names

[Bellsa]

Mary Eve and Martha are all lovely.

[Bellsa]

I'm wrong about Eleanor. Am a muppet. Just sounds as if it should be biblical iyswim?

[nkf]

Elizabeth is biblical. Also: Sarah, Hannah, Ruth, Rebekah Jessica, Rachel and Susannah. Some sound more biblical than others to me.

[Ceolas]

Martha we have!

DH has vetoed Eve.

I'm not sure about Mary. I like Maria, but there's another in the family.

The other 3 DCs are plain, ordinary names and not immediately recognisable as from the Bible.

I also like Elizabeth, but again DH has said no. Unfortunately he's a teacher and lots of names trigger bad memories!

[thatsnotmymonster]

I like Tabitha, Miriam, Naomi, Hannah

Rebecca/Rebekah
Keziah
Jude (biblical boy's name for a girl?)

[PinkyMinxy]

My DC e my two DDs middle names all have latin names but it's not an obvious theme, I don't think.

Religious names tend also to be classic names for particular cultures, so it wouldn't seem contrived I don't think.

Mary and Martha and I think they are lovely- I only didn't use themas first names as friend's DDs already had them.

[PinkyMinxy]

oops don't know what happened there- it should read Martha and Mary are my DDs middle names and I think they are lovely...

[Tommy]

DS3 was going to be Lydia - NT name which I think is lovely
There's also Esther, Ruth, Salome, Joanna, Madeleine (variation on Magdalene), Susannah, Deborah - loads of beautiful names

We have an OT name for DS1 and a NT name for DS2. A third was going to be early church(we got a bit keen on the "theme" here ) but we had a miscarriage and didn't want to use the same name again so DS3 is named after a modern saint - so there is a theme but it needs explaining a bit sometimes

[maggievirgo]

Love Naomi, Lydia, Jemima, Susannah, Keziah. I also like Miriam and ruth but as middle names.

I would probably just keep looking in the bible, there has got to be a name in there!

[maggievirgo]

Eve, Martha and Rachel all lovely too.

[georgimama]

Sarah is a Biblical name but no one ever thinks of it as such. There are loads and loads.

[cookielove]

Sarah is a lovely, beautiful, and wonderful name

[sweetkitty]

My three DDs all have biblical names two OT, one NT not deliberately more we liked and name and looked up the meaning.

I know one of your DDs names, same as one of DD3's middle names lovely. What about, Sarah, Hannah, Leah, Rachel, Rebecca, Esther, Abigail, Bethany, Elizabeth, Phoebe, Ruth?

[violethill]

I would go with the theme.

I just get the feeling if you have four Biblical and one non-Biblical, it will always grate slightly with you.

FWIW, my dcs all have a 'link' with their names, and it would have felt odd to suddenly drop the link with one.

[violethill]

Sweetkitty - mine are Biblical too and I agree about the meanings! There are some beautiful ones there. Just beware of Rebecca (means 'a noose') and Leah (cow!)

[bronze]

Annas another like Sarah and Elizabeth. Not obvious. Joanna, Julia, Leah

so manynames