Yet another boys name from me!

[tummytickler]

Loving Shem still.
But throwing Mortimer and Mordecai into the pot!
What do you think?
I dont like cai as a nn, and think that would become a nn for Mordecai no matter how i felt about it!

Opinions welcome (encouraged in fact!)

Shem - sounds made up or a nn
Mortimer - Makes me think mouse or Bob, not atall keen on this, if you're going to use a surname there's much nicer sounding ones.
Mordecai - Never heard of it, sounds like you're trying too hard to find something different. Why would you choose a name with an obvious nn that you don't like?

Sorry not very positive, but honest.

Don't like Shem.
Do like Mortimer, Morty or Mort are nice nns.
Mordecai is pretty awful imo.

All three have negative connotations in the sound for me....

Shem = shame
Mordecai = best of three but sounds like an evil soccerer.
Mortimer = Mortal/ morbid

Sounds like you like old Hebrew names?

I am sorry, but I don't like any of them, especially Mortimer (sounds like a mouse character from a picture book)

However, what about Malachy? It's sort of similar to Mordecai, but less Old testament. I think it's Irish, and pronounced
MAL-A-KEY

Is Mordecai quite a political Zionist choice? He is an interesting character in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Shem, Sorry don't like it at all.
Mordecai, I can get past the fact when dd is stroppy dh calls her Mordecai the Modwen
(don't ask why because I don't know)
Mortimer, for me is the best of the bunch but it does make me want to say Mort in an american accent.
A plus side to all of them is that I have never heard of any child called any of them and I have known lots of children in my work.
Sorry to be negative, go with what you love.

Malachy is quite nice

Malachi is biblical

you should try the "board room" test. when your child grows up and is busy and important, will people take him seriously with a name like Shem?
I'm sorry tummy but I can't see Mordecai as CEO or director either. And Mortimer sounds like a Mortitian (if thats how it is spelled?)
I'm so sorry...

A friend suggested Mordecai to us when expecting DS, he insisted pronounciation was 4 syllables, mor -duh -kay -eye, rather than mor-duh-kye, but then nn's Mord and Kay sound rather feminine?