Awful biblical names

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Anyone else out there who thinks some biblical names are just awful? My cousin just named her DS Enoch -- bleugh! Some other ones I'd never use:

Hepzibah -- sounds like hippopotamus or heffalump.
Jezebel -- obvious reason!
Jael -- can't get the story of her hammering a tent peg through some chap's head out of my own head.

My granddad was Ephraim, which is an awful name. He was always called Eph (F) to the point where he was once asked what the F stood for (poor person probably thought Frank or something). According to my baby names book it's a name that going to come back in a big way [sceptical]

That would be not [sceptical]

jedediah is a bit ...juddery. Jed nice, though, in a US baptist, six fingers on one hand kinda way.

Caleb

Moses

Am not keen on Noah either but no that it is getting popular

some Biblical names are lovely but there are some awful ones too.

Methusaleh

been watching this thread because I've got two with biblical names - knew one or t'other would come up sooner or later!
(Don't mind - everyone has different likes and dislikes regarding names!)

Can't get past the thought of Enoch Powell with Enoch - surely that's the first person people would think of, and not someone you'd necessarily want associated with your dc. And the suffering of Job would always put me off. Weren't there a lot of boils involved?

titus
ariel (lovely name and nearly used for dd4 but wonder would you always have jokes about soap powder. i wasnt brave enough to risk it )
ebenezer (scrooge)
zebedee (reminds me too much of magic roundabout)
keren -happuch
nimrod
mephibosheth

Melchizidec.
Apart from being a mouthful, its what Sara called her rat in A Little Princess, and although it was a very nice rat as rats go, its not exactly a great association

I wonder if anyone has used Cain since Genesis?

OTOH the Bible contains a lot of consistently popular names for a book written in another part of the world thousands of years ago.

Yes - I know a Cain. And a Titus (as mentioned earlier in the thread).

Cain - killed his brother, why would you use it?

Noah fine, Josiah fine, Elijah fine, but Malachi or Micah, while not awful, are just a step too far down the road for my taste.

Yes grimma I know a couple of children called Cain.

Has anyone actually met a child called Judas or Herod or Methuselah tho?

Ephraim is great! Caleb is great!

Zaccheus is great!

Only ones I do not like are the ones I cannot spell/pronounce!

I rather like Micah - but DH would not be persuaded.

I love Caleb and Ezra! I know a wonderful Ezra. I also know brothers named Jacob and Job who are awful little boys, so those are out.

I've never liked Orpah..

I have two biblically named sons, Jorin (child of freedom) and Isaac (laughter). I love those names, and I agree with whoever said that however unusual, we get used to them.

I like Ephraim - have never met one though - can't believe it will be huge!
I have 2 Hebrew sons that have some people , but they haven't been mentioned here yet!
Someone asked me my ideas for a ds3 and had except Jewish friends (Shem, Lev, Mordecai, Hershel).

I like Ezra, but we know a couple - lovely!

Nebuchadnezzar is a bit crap. IMHO.

My ds is Jonah (dove) Gideon (mighty warrior)and my mum knows a little boy called Malachi.

DPs gran wanted him to have a biblical name.

MIL suggested Jesus. Didn't go down too well!!

I just can't get on with Noah: however popular it gets, it just makes me think of Sunday school, or the old tv show Noah & Nelly.

jordan used to be a nice unisex biblical name but i fear looking at birth registrations it is doomed because of its katie price link to disappear into obscurity for at least the next 50 years particularly for boys