Josiah?

[Clawdy]

Being considered for DS's second baby if a boy. Any thoughts?

Love love love love it.

I traced my family tree back to the C17th and there's a Josiah in every generation.

Love it.

Friends ds's middle name as she wasn't brave enough to use it as a first name!

Love it too.

Bit American Bible Belt...?

Love love love it confesses I'm a West Wing fan

I love it. It does feel like a very Biblical name to me, which is actually one reason I like it. But dh didn't so we don't have a Josiah

Josiah was on another thread in the last week or so. Someone said this which sums it up perfectly, 'Josiah would live in an Amish community in Pennsylvania. Drives a black buggy with a trotting horse.'

How on earth do you pronounce it?

Joe-sigh-a

I know a Josiah. He is the nicest teenage boy I ever met. He mostly gets called Joe by friends and family.
I really like the name, but people will assume a church connection if you use a relatively unusual bible name like Josiah.

I thought it was Ho-sigh-a.

I do like it.

On an Amish programme recently there was someone called Josiah and that was how they pronounced it. Maybe you can say it different ways?

It is Jo-sigh-a

same roots as Joshua and Jesus, so if you are in a spanish speaking context I assume it would be Ho-sigh-a?

I also like Judah.

My DS's middle name is Josiah. Josiah Wedgewood was a social reformer and Josiah Bartlet from the West Wing was a very moral man and so we liked the connotations that went with that. Personally I preferred Joseph or Jacob but as it was a middle name I was prepared to compromise with DH.

Bravo for Mr Sixparrots!

I love it, and at the end of the day, it's what you think of it that matters :)

It's nice. I know a Josiah and he is called Joss for short. So much cooler than Josh, which is ubiquitous.

Fab name

Interesting points here! Ds and his partner are not at all religious but love Bible- belt names. Love the thought of the black buggy with trotting horse! Had never heard it pronounced as Hosiah though...isn't it Hebraic in origin,not Spanish?

Absolutely adore it.

The 'sounds Amish' thing is a bit odd to me. Yes, it is an old traditional name, but plenty of those have staged a come back.

If I had one, I would call him Jed, a la the amazing Jed Bartlett (West Wing nut here).

Only thing that would put me off is the nickname Josh, because my family and friends have a million Josh's between them.