What do you think of this biblical names?

[alessandrae83]

Two sons with biblical names so want another biblical name or similar . Comment on these names please

GIRLS

Adah
Anna
Atarah
Elizabeth
Evangeline
Esther
Hannah
Julia
Keturah
Keziah
Leah
Lois
Lydia
Magdalena
Martha
Miriam
Phoebe
Rebekah
Ruth
Sapphira

BOYS
Alexander
Asa
Asher
Caleb
Ethan
Ezra
Gabriel
Ira
Isaac
Jared
Jesse
Joel
Jonah
Levi
Lucas
Mark
Matthew
Micah
Nathaniel
Reuben
Saul
Seth
Thomas
Tobias
Zachariah
Zachary

I think Ruth is due a comeback. It's a lovely name.

Some of the spellings are funny, any reason why Rebekah inst as of Rebecca? In Hebrew it's Rivkah.

Love Ira but think about the IRA.

Well that depends. Are your boys names obviously biblical, like Ezra, or more common usage like Daniel?

My kids have biblical names but ones where their modern usage is more well known than their biblical routes. Think Elizabeth and Matthew sort of thing.

*roots I mean, not routes

Adah
Anna
Atarah - reminds me of Atari computers
Elizabeth
Evangeline
Esther
Hannah
Julia
Keturah - sounds like someone hasn’t had enough carbohydrate and is in ketosis
Keziah
Leah
Lois - Lane
Lydia
Magdalena
Martha
Miriam
Phoebe
Rebekah
Ruth
Sapphira

GIRLS

Adah... Lovely
Anna... Lovely
Atarah... Really like this
Elizabeth... Lovely, classic
Evangeline... Nice buy not my cup of tea
Esther... Like it
Hannah... Like
Julia... Ok
Keturah... Don't like
Keziah... Really don't like
Leah... It's ok
Lois... Like
Lydia... Ok
Magdalena... Not my kind of name
Martha... Like
Miriam... Ok
Phoebe... Like
Rebekah... Ok
Ruth... OK
Sapphira... Meh

BOYS
Alexander... It's OK bit boring
Asa... Don't like
Asher... Ok
Caleb... Ok
Ethan... Nice
Ezra... Nice but getting popular
Gabriel... Lovely
Ira... Ok
Isaac... Ok
Jared... Nice
Jesse... Nice
Joel... Ok
Jonah... Like
Levi... Don't like
Lucas... Ok
Mark... Age 40
Matthew ...ok
Micah ...ok
Nathaniel ...like
Reuben ...love
Saul... Ok
Seth... Like
Thomas... Ok
Tobias... Love
Zachariah... Like
Zachary... Ok

Boys are ok except Asher and Ezra.

There's some lovely ones in there op.

The ones that stick out to me

Evangeline
Magdalena
Julia

Gabriel
Alexander
Ruben
Levi
Ira
Nathaniel (every Nathan I've met as been lovely)
Caleb
Asher

Evangeline and Magdalena have always been on our lists of girls names with all 3 babies

Reuben, Gabriel, Keziah and Phoebe are my favourites.
My youngest is Reuben, only come across one other Reuben. I always get compliments on his name. He was very almost a Gabriel.

Evangeline is lovely. Lois would be my second choice
Micah or Ezra are my two favourites from the boys list

I really like Lydia, Keziah, Rebekah and Hannah. I like pretty much all of your boys names, favourites are (in no particular order) Seth, Isaac, Asher, Joel, Jared, Alexander, Ethan, Jonah, Matthew, Zachary, Lucas, Thomas, Reuben and Nathaniel. Your boys list is pretty much mine!

If you're wanting more mainstream then Thomas or Hannah. Or more unusual Asher and Keziah.

Keziah is a great name. Sapphira isn't a particularly inspirational character in Acts, she's a liar and drops dead instantly because of the lies she told.

That has kind of ruined sapphira but it is so pretty

I love Micah and don’t like any of the girls names, sorry.

I like all of your boy names! Especially Isaac, Ezra, Caleb & Levi.

Of your girls names I would only personally use Leah or Esther.

My daughters middle name is Keturah, so I think it's lovely
Boys names I like Jared and Seth (daughter would have been Seth if she was a boy.)
Miriam and Atarah are nice too.

Really like

Elizabeth
Julia
Keziah (joint 1st)
Phoebe (joint 1st- however my dd's name so obviously I like it)
Rebekah
(gosh I sound mega traditional here and usually I am not)

Asa
Asher
Ezra
Ira
Jonah

Really not keen on Caleb personally..

Martha and Ruth and Esther

Lucas and Tobias or Mark (or John is good)

Evangeline, Ezra and Jared I love

While in the Bible Jesse is the Father of David to many it may sound too similar to the Girls name Jessie and the fact that it is not seen as manly, as mentioned above Sapphira is not a good role model
Evangeline isn't actually a biblical name but it derived from the greek work evangelist meaning bringer of good news, and Magdalena is a place ie Mary from the village of Magdalen, the others are all actual names of people except Zachary which is derivative of Zechariah
some of them we know nothing about they are just in a list of names but none apart from Sapphira are really negative I mean no one wants their child to be a Herod or Jezebel

They're all good names. I wouldn't choose Keturah because I knew someone of that name who wasn't very......nice..... but that's no reason for someone else not to choose it.

I love biblical names and my children all have them. You've got some gorgeous names there!

Adah - too unknown for me. How do you pronounce it?
Anna - beautiful
Atarah - a bit too unknown for me
Elizabeth - BEAUTIFUL!!
Evangeline - nice
Esther - nice
Hannah - lovely
Julia - i really wanted this!! So lovely!
Keturah - no
Keziah - no
Leah - another one i wanted!
Lois - lovely
Lydia - lovely but I've known some awful Lydia's in real life so it puts me off!
Magdalena - no!
Martha - lovely
Miriam - beautiful
Phoebe- beautiful
Rebekah- beautiful but will get shortened to Becs
Ruth - lovely
Sapphira - no

BOYS
Alexander - gorgeous
Asa - nice
Asher - lovely
Caleb - lovely
Ethan - nice
Ezra - no
Gabriel- no
Ira - no
Isaac - nice
Jared - lovely
Jesse - lovely
Joel - lovely
Jonah - no
Levi - no
Lucas - boring
Mark - lovely
Matthew - lovely
Micah - lovely but i prefer Michael
Nathaniel - nice
Reuben - nice
Saul - no
Seth- lovely
Thomas- lovely
Tobias - no
Zachariah- nice
Zachary- prefer this to Zachariah

Adah - very sweet
Anna - lovely
Atara - really don’t like this - it has a chavvy made up vibe
Elizabeth - boring but nice nicknames
Evangeline - there’s something about this name that I just hate but I can’t put my finger on what
Esther - beautiful
Hannah - terribly dull and dated
Julia - dated but also nice
Keturah - really don’t like
Keziah - also really don’t like - would be shortened to ‘Kez’
Leah - okay but boring
Lois - boring and dated
Lydia - okay, quite sweet
Magdalena - lovely and cute nickname options
Martha - lovely
Miriam - cool meaning, and Miri is a cute nickname, but also sounds very wet to me when used in full
Phoebe - quite nice
Rebekah - boring
Ruth - boring
Sapphira - okay - maybe a bit much

BOYS
Alexander - like
Asa - no
Asher - cute
Caleb - cool
Ethan - boring
Ezra - cool
Gabriel - lovely
Ira - no
Isaac - nice
Jared - really no
Jesse - lovely
Joel - no
Jonah - very cool
Levi - bit chavvy in my area
Lucas - nice
Mark - no unless he’s going to be born a middle aged man
Matthew - see Mark
Micah - okay
Nathaniel - okay
Reuben - lovely
Saul - no
Seth - lovely
Thomas - boring
Tobias - boring
Zachariah - too much
Zachary - okay but quite common

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Also I find it weird when people struggle with the concept of Jesse as a male name. I’ve only ever known male Jesses, I know a couple of Jessica’s who shorten their name to Jess but Jesse has always been very much a boys name to me.