What do you think of Isaiah for a boy?

[FreshScent]

What do you think?

[JRocks]

I like it

[cookielove]

i love it, have loved it from about age 13 when saw a film called loosing Isaiah, so beautiful

[rubyslippers]

it may be a grower ...

am not sure about it

[honeydew]

nice - could be a bit heavy -how much do you want you son to stand out? Be careful with these fashionable but unusual names.

[glucose]

er not fashionable, try biblical

dd has an Isaiah at nursery, family are practising christians, he is a sweet little thing.

[hester]

I like it.

[hambo]

Glucose - I think Honeydew means that at the moment it is fashionable to use biblical names.

It was not/will not be so fashionable in other decades.

Fashionable does not have to mean modern.

[MamaLazarou]

Isiah is a BRILLIANT name!

[boodleboot]

i do not like isiah....it sounds very dry to me...prefer the other -iah names like Josiah and Jeremiah...

[JeMeSouviens]

Love it.

[GossipMonger]

To me it is too Biblical IYKWIM!

Joshua fine
Joseph fine
Luke fine

Moses not fine
Isaiah not fine
Noah not fine

But just my opinion. If you like it use it.
What sort of thing would it get shortened too do you think?

[screamingabdab]

I also think it is a bit too Old Testament

Although I like Elijah, strangely, and Isaac.


Or failing that, Nigel

[GrimmaTheNome]

Don't like OT prophets. At least its better than Melchizidec though.

Or Elisha... which seems to have been adopted as a girls name and pronounced El-ee-sha - I was quite suprised when I first saw it and pronounced it El-eye-sha like I'd always heard in church, Elijah and Elisha...

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

Its a bit Amish to me, don't know if it is actually an Amish name but it sounds it. I prefer Issac.

[jellybeans]

I like it. Good name.

[Firawla]

I like it

[MaElsie]

Go for it, I think it's a good, solid boys name. You'd know where you were with an Isaiah - he'd be bound to be tall, broad and have a deep, resonant voice.

Plus, the more people who choose Biblical prophets' names, the less strange will our choice of Biblical name appear when our child is born!

[Jemima123]

I like it. Also chose Isaac for a middle name for a friend's baby - she was smitten!

[RubyLove1]

I absolutely LOVE the name Isaiah, but where I live (which isnt where Im from to would have made a difference to me) all the guys my DP grew up with have biblical names like Isaiah and Isaac and Elijah and Josiah etc etc (which I love) and DP said no way...