zebedee

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I have just found out that my sister's friend has named her new baby boy Zebedee. I was a bit but then I wondered if I was actually just a bit behind the times, and that in a few years it will be quite a popular name - what do you think?

Zebedee I doubt will ever make the top 100!

It's like Merlin, I've known a few over the years and I'm still a bit shocked when I hear it but each to their own....

It doesn't really pass the 'can they be taken seriously as a high court judge' test.

Anyone remember the 'original' magic roundabout???

i like it , Zeb for short .

Terrible name. Terrible. No offence

It's time for bed now said Zebedee....

Does she also have sons named Dougal and Brian and and dd named Florence?

jollster you forgot the BOING!

Does she also have sons named Dougal and Brian and dd named Florence?

jollster you forgot the BOING!

I know a Zebadiah (Zeb for short) are you sure you didn't mishear?

Know a Zebedee who is a beautiful child. His mother doesn't wear a bra; unfortunately she also favours cropped tops.

I think that Zeb is a cool nn, but would go for Zebulen for the full name myself, rather than Zebedee.

I don't mind it, but it's hugely pretentious, he's definitely going to be the guy who walks around town with a copy of Madame Bovary in his back pocket drinking chai tea.

Well it is a name from the bible. He was the father of the disciples James & John.

But to some of us he will always bounce about on his spring.

Well Florence has made a tremendous comeback from the Magic Roundabout days -- why not Zebedee?

Florence is an old name making a come back. It was my grandma's name(very common in the early 1900s), and we thought about it as a middle name for our DD. I think I would associate the name more with Florence Nightingale than with the Magic Roundabout. Don't think Zebedee has ever been a popular name. It just says BOING ! for me. But maybe it won't have that association for yuonger parents.

I just think it sounds silly. Plus of course "boing, boing" and time for bed. I doubt anyone would associate it with anything else really. For example if you type it into Google you get two links to references to the biblical source, and then the Magic Roundabout (and then a techie link). Florence on the other hand has other associations, including the city and Florence Nightingale, has been relatively popular in the past, and only makes me think Magic Roundabout in combination with other names (Brian, Dougal and of course Zebedee).

Zebediah is the original biblical name I think.

i think Zeb is pretty cool actually but Zebedee is a bit comedy....

I like it little DC2 hasn't been registered yet..... sorely tempted to use it as middle name...

I remember a news story a couple of years ago, where in France a registrar refused to allow a couple to name their baby the French version of Zebedee (Zebulon iirc) as he deemed it ridiculous and cruel.

Need more registrars like that in this country. Baby name thread yesterday - Miele ffs.

I know a Zebedee - He's 30. I used to work with him. Gets called Zeb for short.

His parents obviously wimped out after naming him though as his siblings are Jack and Hannah!

Zebediah is nicer, in fact I really like Zebediah, nickname Zeb.

Makes a nice change from all the Zac/Zak/Zacks/Zacariahs I hear all the time.

I have one.

I know an adult Zebedee. (Lovely guy)
It sounded a bit odd at first but now I've got used to it, I really like it.