Job

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What do you think? I am rather liking it, fits the Biblical trend but not popular yet, easy to spell, short.

Only problem is will people pronounce it Job as in 'Job interview' or how it should be said Jobe? I noticed more people spelled it Jobe recently but I hate the e, it looks wrong.

The Irish comment makes me feel better actually, I like names like Saoirse, Aoife, Aisling, Niamh etc and here there are lots of kids with names that aren't pronounceable on first sight for English people. Kacper for example or Zvi. A Job would be in good company.

I know someone with gaelic name,they habitually have to correct it,pronounce it
But theyre used to it now,as it happens so often.they live down the road
All im saying if you think mispronunciation will irk,you'll need to expect it and go with it

Friends name was 4 simple letters btw. No accents. Nothing. She was constantly frustrated by it.

But it's connotations like blow job that would put me off. That would not be easy to live with. Also that it's a terribly unattractive name IMHO which sounds like some creepy backwoods preacher.

That should read 'Creepy backwoods preacher in a Stephen King novel'.

I love it. And would have put it on my ds2 list if my rabid atheist tendencies hadn't have got the better of me.

See I think it sounds great, I love short names, has a good history, classic old name, not super popular but the option to go by Joe means he isn't cursed if he hates it.

Am glad there are some people who do like it

Why would you call him job,but use joe interchangeably? In that case use joe

I wouldn't call him Joe but if he hates Job, he has the option. I don't actually much like Joe but could live with it.

If you weighed it all up,know it'll be mispronounced a lot,but youre unfazed,then chose job

If you like it, despite everything else, you go for it. I actually quite like the sound of it, just not the connotations.

I'd give him a more conventional middle name though, just in case.

You don't have to be northern to have heard job used as slang for poo! I am as southern as they come and have, at various times lived (and was born) in London. I am totally familiar with the term 'going for a job' to mean taking a shit.

I thought Job (the Biblical one) is well known for being miserable. My mother always used to call pessimistic, miserable people 'Jobs'.

Whilst I accept that, pronounced correctly, it has quite a nice sound, I think you are setting the kid up for constant mickey taking along the lines of 'good job' (especially with the creeping Americanism entering our culture and replacing 'well done') 'bad job', 'odd job' and, most fatally, 'blow job'.

Not forgetting 'Dead end job'.

I think it's a lovely name and I'd not worry about the mispronunciation. There are many many names that are mispronounced more than Job. Aoife for example!

I may be biased as I happen to know a gorgeous little Job, but I love the sound of the name and (sorry to say it) I would think someone a bit silly if the didn't know how to pronounce it. I'm an atheist, by the way, and not well educated in the Bible.

Thirdly, I'm a bit WTF about people talking about poo.... Anybody thinking the kid is called 'job' as in employment is a bit silly and then to take that further and start thinking if 'jobby' etc. - really?! I'm pretty sure we could do this with almost any name if we wanted to be really childish.

You don't need to be biblically illiterate to not know how to correctly pronounce Job.

Most Bibles I've seen don't have handy name pronunciation tips included, so if you've only come across the story of Job in writing (or via other people who've only come across it in writing), you could easily know the story back to front and still pronounce it as in "job centre"

Job is a great name
Our son is Johann(pronounced Yohann) and gets called all sorts of things but it has never bothered him...he just corrects people and thinks they are a little stupid!

Sorry OP but I'm a Londoner and job or jobby makes me think poo.

Plus there are plenty of northerners in London!

Ahh'so job= poo doon the road too
Didn't know that

Poo

I didnt know if keech travels
Keech = jobbie

I'm a Londoner, born and bred.

A job is a poo.

A big job or jobbie is a big poo.

I'm not au fait with the bible, and didn't realise until this thread that job as a name would be pronounced joe-b. I can guarantee that many many people will pronounce it job, as in work.

Keech - like that one.

Horrendous.

Not only for the teasing and the pronunciation and the poo connection therefrom, but for the biblical story too - why would you do that to a tiny child? You've never heard the saying 'as miserable as Job'?

Mind you, it's not as bad as Cain, which I've seen a few poor children named...

I too think of poo.

I just can't read it as Joe-B. I can only see job, because that's a word I am familiar with and that's now you spell it. That's why I clicked in, thinking you were insane

Jobe reads right because the 'e' lengthens the 'o' in English like Robe, whereas no 'e' shortens it like Rob. I know you don't need telling, but that's my issue with the spelling. I don't think I'm 'silly' for not knowing how to say it from the off like a pp suggested. Those not brushed up on their biblical names are likely going to read it as job centre.

If you love the name, go for it, but there will be eyebrow raising, pronunciation errors and a majority of people won't get the reference. I really am not a fan. It doesn't even sound like a name to me, honestly. YY to backwoods Stephen King preacher name.