Please - Any suggestions on Christian names for babies - Boys & Girls

[Mama2b5]

Hi just would like some ideas of Christian names for unborn child - Boys and girls.
I have thoughts of some but cant find a balance for me and DH to be happy with.

Hi - do you mean ones which are very specifically Christian then?

I guess for boys the apostles would be the obvious ones - Peter, Paul, Matthew, Andrew, Thomas... err... memory gives up at that point, since you wouldn't want Judas... Joseph is nice too.

Girls in the NT - Mary, Martha, Elizabeth

OT - Joshua, Samuel, David, Saul
Rebecca, Hannah, Sarah

Ruth, Naomi and Miriam are nice too.

Bible is stuffed with good names (plus a few stinkers like Hepzibah and Haggai )

here's a website but I think it's very American... I doubt "Memphis" is going to be a popular UK name anytime soon...

I named DD "Elizabeth" before she was born. After she was born I discovered that St Elizabeth's saints day is November 5th - which is the day I had my first scan.
Spooky..

When considering names for DD my mum got out a book of dogs names for ideas.... Do not resort to this!!

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Hi thanks for the comments and names - i am after strong biblical names in which has strong meanings! we have had so many babies born in our church, so all names are gone and i would love something that when i call my child - 20 people don't turn and look!

Susanna

what names are out? ie have been used already?

eli, timothy, thomas, reuben, levi, jacob,

lydia
phoebe

There are some cracking Hebrew names too - more often found on Jewish babies these days but still very biblical
Talia
Aviva
Yael

also
Esther
Jemima

Tabitha

hi - yes the usual ones are over used -
michael, joshua, celab,nathan, daniel, gabrielle,matthew,samual,naomi,sarah,hope,davidgrace,mikiel,emmauelle,joy,elizabeth, mary.etc

clearly i would like a name in which my chid doesnt have to keep spelling it because its hard for others to but as that i wanted a name thats not be used before or not so much! i have some many others, but its a big church and way to many names to mention! Bless you for the efforts!

so have we posted any so far you are interested in?

Aaron, Abigail, Anna, Bethany, Bethan, Caleb, Eden, Elijah, Elisha, Esther, Ethan, Ezra, Hannah, Isaac, Jacob, James, Jemima, Jesse, Joanna, Jochbed, Joel, Josiah, Jonathan, Jude, Leah, Lydia, Mark, Martha, Mary, Micah, Miriam, Naomi, Nathan, Nathaniel, Noah, Peter, Phoebe, Philip, Rachel, Rebekah / Rebecca, Ruth, Simeon, Simon, Stephen, Susanna(h), Tabitha, Thomas, Timothy, Tobiah, Zachariah / Zechariah, Zacchaeus

Theresa, Magdalena. Maybe two names together like Mary Ann?

Im praying for God to let me know what i should call this child!

Thanks for all your wonderful efforts!(especially Ja9 and GF) i do believe its so more then a name and dont want to pick the incorrect one, the MEANING of the name is also extremely important to us!

hi, i was the same, wanted very strong biblical names but wanted them to be unusual(my husband did'nt really)
I liked Ethan, Jared, Josiah, Josias, Joses,
Aiden, Finnian, Jed, Rueben,
Eliva, Natalia, Lucia, Felicity, Celeste, Sariel, Kyria.
Hope some of these help.
I spent ages on the internet researching unusual biblical/christian names.

is ethan biblical? really?

jocie did you use any of them?

Boys- Malachi, Joel, Elijah, Peter, or a new favourite of mine - Linus?

Girls - Tamar, Miriam, Deborah, Susannah? I also loved Magdalena posted above.

yes ethan is biblical, the name is found in 1 Kings, 1 Chronicals and 'Ethan' wrote Psalm 89!( We used that one as we only knew of 1 other Ethan although since then we have come across loads hence why we went a little more unusual second time around with Jared which is found in Genisis 5)