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Is Bathsheba useable?

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Quesadillo · 02/01/2013 20:30

That's it really. Yes, get the King David story, naked roof-bathing and Thomas Hardy and all that.

So the question is: could a RL person carry off this name?

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nkf · 05/01/2013 17:10

Congratulations.

everlong · 05/01/2013 16:26

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Viviennemary · 05/01/2013 16:24

It is perhaps useable if you are intending to write a time travel novel. Otherwise no.

Bonsoir · 05/01/2013 16:19

Congratulations!

Bonsoir · 05/01/2013 16:18

I love Bathsheba but wanted to avoid Jewish names (DP is Jewish but absolutely no-one in his family would dream of giving a child a Jewish name).

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Quesadillo · 05/01/2013 16:14

Thanks everyone for the huge amount of interesting feedback, with the exception of the small minority who need to get out more.

I've been preoccupied in the meantime in giving birth to DD2 who is not called Bathsheba but I do think it's a great name. It will be her Hebrew name, as it is mine. But I wont say i don't have some regrets that she won't be rocking it as a barrister or a high court judge or a paediatric surgeon- which is what I do. Always refreshing, though, to be called "silly"....

And now my boobs are calling.

Happy naming everyone!

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ProphetOfDoom · 05/01/2013 16:00

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Astley · 05/01/2013 15:56

I know one. Now a hugely sucessful barrister. So not been a horrible burden for her!

thetigerwhocametoteax · 04/01/2013 21:51

We know a little Bathsheba - pronounced Beth-sheba, although she gets called "Bash" mostly. It helps she is beautiful and confident as its a unusual name to pull off.

Dogsmom · 04/01/2013 21:38

Bath Sheba - wash the german shepherd.

Tortoise · 04/01/2013 20:20

Ayeupmoose I know one too and the siblings also have, Erm, unusual names.

Narked · 04/01/2013 15:47

It's a beautiful name but, to me anyway, says Serious Money, beautiful London home a place in France and public school. If that's you, go for it.

delilah88 · 04/01/2013 14:42

SILLY! not stilly.

delilah88 · 04/01/2013 14:42

No I think it's stilly. Not the same but I met a grown woman called Sappho at an NCT and thought it ridiculous.

VisualiseAHorse · 04/01/2013 13:23

Actually, on second thoughts, I do think it's a nice name, but upon reading it, the above is what I thought first1

VisualiseAHorse · 04/01/2013 13:21

No. Thought it was some sort of product for bathing babies. Or cats.

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BobbiFleckmann · 04/01/2013 13:13

it's a brilliant name, and yes, Biba from teh Poison Tree is a Bathsheba (god the hours of my life i'll never get back from reading that book...)

PoppyAmex · 04/01/2013 13:13

Didn't OP say it's HER name?

If so, poor thing reading all this!

Anyway, I think it's a perfectly nice name.

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ImNotaPheasantPlucker · 04/01/2013 13:05

Well, I like it!

Sheba, however, is a German Shepherd dog kind of name.

So ner!

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nkf · 04/01/2013 12:59

Goldfish? Two of them. Bathsheba and Eustacia.