Moses?

[aroha77]

Looking for a boy's name which isn't too popular but isn't too weird or pretentious...

Hopefully will 'go' with his older sister's name Olive

Quite like Moses, nn Mo...any thoughts or other ideas...?

No

Only if your last name is Basket.

I wouldn't pick it myself, but I do quite like it.

I think Gwyneth Paltrow has a Moses :) I do think it goes quite nicely with Olive.

Not Moses.
Cain and Abel
Jubal
Job

I actually quite like Moses.

I like it

Isn't that like naming your child Jesus?

Made me think 'Dingle'. It's not for me, but it's not a bad name!

I like Moses. It was on my list for what I wanted to call my DS.

I know a little girl called Moses-Mae who it suits

A girl called Moses?! Now I've seen it all

It's cute.

Love it.
Moses and olive sound cool.

it's a shame so many nice names are ruined by Jesus.

too Jesusy. i would assume his mum and dad were devout and kooks too

That's the my only worry - that it's too biblical! I am pretty Jesusy myself but not in a name-your-child-an-old-testament-name kind of a way...

Moses is horrid

I would also think that the parents were bible thumpers.

I think it's fine. Nobody says you can't use Noah because of the Ark or Joseph because he was Jesus's father (you know what I mean)

Some alternatives
Olive and Sebastian
Olive and Raphael
Olive and Ezra

I love Moses it was on our list

My friend called her ds Moses. She had changed it to his middle name before he turned a year old.
Joshua. .

it's a really big name to live up to

I love Moses as a name- I worked with a wonderful young man called Moses. Yes thou, it is religious!

How about Amos? Similar feel while being religious but not super religious

Thank you for the suggestions! Unfortunately we can't go for Sebastian or Ezra because close friends have and Raphael is way too posh for where we live. I quite like Amos but it makes me picture a really old man for some reason whereas Moses doesn't...

Would make me expect the parents at my doorstep enthusiastically sharing the good news at any given moment, sorry!

Amos, though, was not at all old but an uber-attractive teenage boy when I was a somewhat less attractive teenage girl. Think blond hair, blue eyes, All-American type (but actually very British indeed).

Ooh I like Amos