Jedidiah or Otis

[JanuaryJuniper]

Which do you prefer and why?

Jedediah sounds stuttery.

Prefer Otis, though there is the lift issue.

How can everyone be going on about lifts, and not Otis Redding?

No soul.

The lift thing doesn't bother me in the slightest that's just nitpicking really, it was a name way before it was ever a lift.....

Jack dog
Jacob crackers
Ben uncle

Doesn't stop those names being usable and hugely popular!

Jedidiah is awful. It sounds like the name of an Amish person. So stereotypically Biblical American.

Otis is lovely.

Sorry but the remind me of Hodfearing redneck names

Jed is lovely. Otis is lovely but does also remind me of Otis the Aardvark (CBBC circa 1998)

Jebediah is easier on the tongue. Are you choosing Jedidiah just to have the Jed/Jedi? Jed is fine on it's own.

What about Obediah, Obi for short? Still the Star Wars connection if that's what you were going for.

Be mindful that with the "diah" ending, you are likely to get "diarrhoea" nicknames.

Otis

Also, isn't the usual spelling Jedediah? Not Jedidiah?

Do you have any other names that you both like OP ?

No to Jedidiah. Sounds like you have a stammer and for me it is just a clumsy word. Plain Jed or Otis are much better.

I like Jedidiah but both are lovely.

Are you from the deep south?

Otis. I really don't like Jedediah.

Otis! Jedediah is tricky to say and spell.

I love Otis! It's on my boy list this time round

Jedidiah sounds like he wears dungarees and a straw hat and lives on a farm in America.
Love Otis though

So it would seem Otis is a firm favourite over Jedidiah. It is so difficult to decide. We do have a few other names on the list.

Jebediah is much nicer than Jedidiah

I am also the generation who have Otis the Aardvark associations but much prefer Otis. The lift thing is a ridiculous reason! And his peers will never have heard of the aardvark

I immediately think Jebediah Springfield. But I may have watched too much Simpsons.

How about Jed short for Jared, OP?

I love Otis, really cool. Agree with pps who mentioned bible belt. First thing that came to mind when I saw Jedidiah was the Duggar family.

Love Otis. I feel like an Otis would be a lot cooler than a Jedidiah.

Otis was our top choice until DH's mate named his DS that. We ended up with a name I love even more.

I have a firm Noooooooooooooooo response to both names in OP.

Jared/Jed is fine.