Keturah

[17caterpillars1mouse]

What are your thoughts on Keturah? Have you ever met one?

How is pronounced? KET-you-ra or Ket-YOU-ra or something else?

Never seen it before. Have you made it up, O.P.? Sounds like a brand of curry paste to my ears!

Ke-tor-ruh

It's an old Hebrew name. Keturah was Abraham's wife I believe

I have an unusual name. It's common in France but not here. As a child I hated having to spell it all the time.
People still can't spell my name and that's after an annoying singer with the same name (think Titanic) became famous.
I'm not saying choose a boring name but please don't choose a name that no one knows how to spell or pronounce.

Sounds like one of the Thundercats to me.

It sounds like an obscure old fashioned medical condition to me. Possibly found in ewes.

I've only ever known one, she went by Ketty for short.

Keturah was indeed Abraham's second wife, after Sarah died. It means "incense" in Hebrew. In Hebrew, we pronounce it closer to k'too-RAH (keh-too-rah is the closest sound in English), there is no 'r' sound on the end of the 'too' bit.

I do like it. There aren't many rare female Biblical names - from either the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Bible - because there aren't that many female Biblical names, in comparison to the male names. Keturah is definitely one of the rarities.

I love old Hebrew/Biblical names but I'm not keen on Keturah.

1. It can be shortened to Ket, which makes me think of ketamine.
2. It reminds me of the word ketubah, a marriage contract that (historically) set out the "bride price" if the marriage ended.
3. Keturah is described as Abraham's concubine, rather than wife, in Chronicles.

Unfortunately to me it makes me think of catarrh.

I have a Keturah in my family tree born in England in the early 1800s so it is definitely a real name.

I knew one. I kinda liked the name

Its a biblical name, nice I think but I have unpleasant associations with a woman who called herself that on a now defunct forum, years ago. She was supposed to be a Christian but was extremely unpleasant.

However in itself it is a pleasant name and she could be known as 'Ketty' by her friends.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keturah

Sounds like a small city where an upraising was put down by vicious colonial troops in 1838

no. no. no.
sounds like some kind of a product brand name.
possibly for something unpleasant. or quasi-medical.

I've had a friend named Keturah. Turned out people only called her by her initials KB. She was one of a very small number of english speaker children I knew (was a child myself) so I assumed it was a common name. Only found out mist people had never heard of it when i studied abroad.

*most

Really sorry but it doesn't grab me.

And makes me think of ketamine 🙈

I have always loved this name! Beautiful, Biblical, unusual. Kat a potential shortening too.

There's a Caroline B Cooney (remember her?!) book with a Katurah in.

If you search older threads on this board I'm sure it's had a lot of love in the recent past. Just mustn't be catching people's imagination tonight.

Keziah is similar although I prefer Keturah.

I’m not really keen. I just think it had an unpleasant sound. DD has a little friend named Keziah which I thought was cute and sounded nice.

It's a chain of beauty spas where I live

I don’t like it sorry, just sounds unpleasant to my ears

I like it

I don't like it, sounds very harsh.

Never met one, never heard the name. I can't say I like the look or sound much.

@NameChangeNymph

I honestly snorted. Brilliant.