can i have a Noah and a jonah?

By the way I do think the names Noah and Jonah are lovely. There was a Jonah in my favourite Dick Francis story he was a lovely man.

I love the name Angus! Fabulous name. I would use it like a shot if I could claim even the most tenuous connection to Scotland.

It's interesting how times change.

At my school, calling someone 'a Jonah' was an insult as it meant you were a bringer of bad luck.

I really like the name ad I'm glad people no longer think this way.

But the names are associated with more than just the bible. It's not like no-one else in the world has ever used those. The names appear in many other things that the OP may be interested in.

For example using the name Luke could be from the bible, it could also be from Star wars, it could be from your Great Uncle Luke or from an ex-colleague's child who you met or you could have randomly picked it from a baby book because you liked the sound or it went well with your surname etc etc

Your posts definitely implied that if you weren't religious you shouldn't use a name from the bible. I see you've clarified that you mean in multiple but I don't think that really changes it.

My point was really unless you have a great interest in something why would you take 2 names so obviously associated with it. One name. Not so much. I would think the same if one chose Laertes and Ophelia if they had no interest in Shakespeare or indeed Russell Hobbes and Breville with no interest in electricals

That would be me

and Charlie is a great name. :) And yes, one is never enough. That harks back to pregnancy days when I would buy two boxes of 3 as it was usually buy one get one free. I'd eat one, then want another. Then that would leave one in the box and I'd worry that DP would know I'd eaten two so I'd eat the third and hide the empty box. Later on it would occur to me that I could eat one more and it would look like I'd only had one from the box....... I did that more than once!

Yes, I read Laquilas the same, it was a PP upthread that implied that OP shouldn't be using biblical names unless she was religious and then declared it all to be fine when the OP said she was a Christian. Laquila and I are on the same page in this I think. :) I hope it didn't come across that I was disagreeing with her as that wasn't intended.

Sorry, typo in your name! But you're right. One is never enough!!

onemum I read Laquila's comment to be the same view as yours? She said she didn't necessarily think people should get married in church if not religious (I agree) but it hasn't occurred to her that using biblical names would be an issue. It doesn't sound like she has a problem with it at all.

I have a nephew Charlie that my brother makes no bones about the fact that he is names after Charlie Chalk because he loved him so much as a kid

Laquila, I'm gobsmacked actually and it seems a very arrogant statement to make. Whatever people believe, at the end of the day it's a book about people and they are just names. I wouldn't get upset at people wanting to call their child after a character in my favourite book if they hadn't read it or after a character in a TV programme if they weren't a fan.

No-one owns the right to a name. It's just a name.

Sorry, forgot to chime in on the names! Eleanor, Noah and Jonah are all lovely and I don't think they're too similar. Would you shorten Jonah to Joe?

I'm interested in the theory that non-religious people shouldn't use biblical names, or should curb their use of them at one name only. I'm a Christian and whilst I have reservations about non-religious people getting married in church, for example, just because they want a lovely photo background, it's never really occurred to me that people would think it inappropriate for non-believers to use names that occur in the bible.

Love both names but they sound too similar - the 'oh' sound. And the 'n' - when you're yelling calling out one of the names, either the wrong one or both will come. (This comes from someone who unwittingly chose names for 2 of her 3 DC that contain the same central
sound as her own name. Mix ups reigned in the Crabb household).

Asher or Josiah could be nice. Or Judah?
I think Jonah is too close.

I think it is fine, they are similar but not ridiculously so and both nice names, especially like Jonah.
I don't see the problem with biblical names - I am not religious but I love OT names and being from a 'Christian ' background still seem culturally appropriate to me. Both my ds have biblical names - I just see the bible as a rich source of lovely names, as others have said.

and a new generation probably won't even know about Jonah

Jonah is a great name.
Just OTT alongside Noah.
Ark / Whale......

But not everyone thinks like this and a new generation probably won't even know about Jonah.

As a mummy of a Jonah, I can assure you I've had no negative responses when I announce his name to people.

Quite a few proclamations of love for it!

He's Jonah James.

Your choice of name sits well with me now

The most common surname in Edinburgh is Robertson iirc. so Robert or Robbie would also be fitting, though Struan is traditionally a really popular boys name in the Robertson clan.

Angus is maybe a bit Highland for an Edinburgh man.

I think you need something more lowland Scottish :)

Struan
Innes
Keir
Douglas
Merrick
Alexander
Alastair
Calvin
Findlay
Blair
Brodie
Jamie
Rory
Gregor
Andrew
Bruce

Yoni?

Brian, is that you?