Is Bathsheba useable?

[Quesadillo]

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?

[nkf]

Congratulations.

[Viviennemary]

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

[Bonsoir]

Congratulations!

[Bonsoir]

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).

[Quesadillo]

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!

[Astley]

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

[thetigerwhocametoteax]

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]

Bath Sheba - wash the german shepherd.

[Tortoise]

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

[Narked]

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]

SILLY! not stilly.

[delilah88]

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]

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

[VisualiseAHorse]

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

[BobbiFleckmann]

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]

Didn't OP say it's HER name?

If so, poor thing reading all this!

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

[ImNotaPheasantPlucker]

Well, I like it!

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

So ner!

[nkf]

Goldfish? Two of them. Bathsheba and Eustacia.