Joshua?

[goomum]

What associations does this name hold for you?

I love it, but sooooooo common. I know of 8

Like it but it is very popular.

I know 2 Joshuas. One is 5, the other is 8. Both are fab little guys, so I am biased towards it. It was also our reserve name for DS.

Like it a lot - don't know any but I have a bit of a lisp so would never chose it for any of my dc!

Love it - is our DS1's name and suits him perfectly. It is very popular (we were at a party on Sunday where there were 3 Joshuas of different ages - though 2 of those were known as Josh) so not one to go for if you want to be unique.

can't understand why its so popular. don't like it at all.

its an odd combination of sounding overtly posh and overtly chav at the same time

I personally don't like Joshua at all - I find the 'a' ending a little feminine sounding.

Also sooo common - there are 3 in my ds's reception year.

I think it's a lovely name. We would have considered it but my cousin has a Joshua.

There are quite a few if them around but, hey that's what happens when names are fashionable

I have one! Wierdly he is the only one in his school, but one of 6 in his Beaver group.

Do you think that you could say popular rather than (soooo) common .

My Joshua is 7 and he was called that before it became so popular but then we named our son after The Joshua Tree because my dh and I both like U2 and we discussed it the first night we met.

Then again my second ds was supposed to be called Madeleine but came out with 10% extra !

and although he is Joshua on his birth certificate (and that was always what the baby was going to be if it was a boy), from about day 2 he was Joshie, and shortened to Josh.
He doesn't seem like a Joshua to me as no one ever refers to him as such.

And as for the overly chav comment [hmm} ...............................

I rather like it. It makes me think of the (music hall?) song that goes "Josh-yoo-aa, Josh-yoo-aa, nicer than lemon squash you are..." - but I guess if that's your name, then people singing that at you might get a little old.

Surprised Joshua got hit with the chav comment. Mind you another thread said that Joshuas were on the list of names to be feared by teachers. Shocking! I always thought it was a solid, traditional, biblical name. Anyone else think it is 'chav' for want of a better term?

lol - my mum used to sing that to my JOsh, I had never heard it before - thought she had made it up.

Well definitely not me

Have we hit a nerve mumtocharlieandlola?

We are just stating the truth, Joshua IS soooo common.

Can we say 'popular' instead?

Its still a lovely name though

Personally I don't like Joshua - and yes, it is very common. I know 3 under 5s.

My DS is Joshua and we don't know any other Joshua's!

Interesting how people can get so hot under the collar about names. Interesting also that people are so put off by popularity...... a beautiful name is a beautiful name. And that is always a matter of personal association. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

To me Joshua is a treasure of a name.