Anyone fancy any of these underused biblical names?

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have a look here

I LOVE Dorcas - shame husband doesn't feel the same!

Docas does have something about it. I think it has the same meaning as Tabitha - (I seem to remember reading that in a baby name book, but then my brain is baby mush at the moment, so I might've dreamt it!).

Shame 'cos I think Jezebel is a really cool name!

Dorcas - that's brilliant.

It would completely save all the children in the class having to decide who to bully!

There is a reason that none of those are used.

I have met a (grown-up) Dorcas. I find it an awful name - although she really was very nice.

Dorcas has terrible teasing implications. Should never be considered :(

"Jezebel...No-one is going to give their child a name that has taken on negative associations - in this case, with a certain type of woman"

well we have definitely had that name come up on baby name threads and people do seem to have chosen it despite the negative connotations.

None of those names appeal to me. Certainly not Radbod or Gomer.

zipporah circumcised her son with a flint - not very MN really.

quite like wilgefortis and her beard - would suit me. Can't see it for a baby girl though.

I have met a Zipporah. In her twenties.

I know a Tsiporah (same name, more Yiddish). And a Hephzibah.

Love Jezebel but is Achsah not now just Asher (which I also love)?

@ "zipporah circumcised her son with a flint - not very MN really."

It's not in the list but I love Josiah, and don't get why it isn't used.

Lol @ "zipporah circumcised her son with a flint - not very MN really."

I know a couple of Josiahs. Both under 5.

Dorcas was a character in seven brides for seven brothers!

Interesting list! :)

How about these? Perhaps more likely to be used and/or make a comeback, but many of them still quite unusual.

Boys:

Ezekiel (Zeke)
Zebedee (Zeb)
Jeremiah (Jem)
Elias
Abraham
Amos
Cornelius
Jeremiah
Hosea
Ezra
Ira
Jada
Jared
Lucius
Othniel
Silvanus
Silas
Micah

Girls:

Alisa
Deborah
Candace
Damaris
Phoebe
Delilah
Sapphira
Miriam
Elisheba
Junia
Mary
Sarah
Joanna
Esther
Julia
Tamar
Tarah

PlanetLizard, my daughter is called Tamar (pronounced 'tay mar'; it is a name that has been used in our family for hundreds of years, yet most people have never heard of ut and are suprised it is a biblical name.

Sorry, missed a closing bracket there!

It's a lovely name ShakinScarecrow :)

i love the name jezebel ...i nearly did it,really,really nearly

More on the Pope-Baby-Name story here at babynamewizard blog

It's a shame Jezebel is completely unuseable. I think it's a beautiful name, an interesting alternative to something a bit overused like Isabel.

DD's names were biblical, including one from PlanetLizard's list, but neither was the name of a saint, which my husband wanted for DD's baptism.

Whilst we went with Rose, I did have fun telling people that we were going to give her the second middle name of Hedwig. They believed it too, as it is a variation of Jadwiga, her Godmother's name.