I saw this name on Instagram today, [name_m]Able[/name_m] [name_u]Oak[/name_u], little brother to Merit, [name_u]August[/name_u], and [name_f]Posey[/name_f]. At first I thought they’d misspelled [name_m]Abel[/name_m], but then I realized: [name_m]Able[/name_m]. A word name. A beautiful, beautiful word name. But would a little [name_m]Able[/name_m] to plagued by [name_m]Abel[/name_m] his whole life, and people mistaking it for the biblical name and not the word? Or is the meaning and symbolism worth it?
I quite like it, but I’m tempted just to enjoy [name_m]Abel[/name_m] instead.
Well, [name_m]Abel[/name_m] should actually be pronounced [name_m]Ah[/name_m]-bel and not like the word [name_m]Able[/name_m], so I would definitely not mix up [name_m]Able[/name_m] and [name_m]Abel[/name_m]. [name_m]Able[/name_m] is a great word name!
The English pronunciation of [name_m]Abel[/name_m] is ay-bəl, the Spanish pronunciation is ah-bel. So you are not pronouncing it wrong.
I am personally not too fond of [name_m]Able[/name_m] as a person’s name. I also feel that people would often spell it [name_m]Abel[/name_m] and believe it was [name_m]Abel[/name_m]. In writing, people might assume a typo.
I’ve never thought of [name_m]Able[/name_m] as a name before, but it’s not bad. I do agree that it will be misspelled and mixed up with [name_m]Abel[/name_m] often, though.
I actually thought you had a typo in this post! I like the idea of [name_m]Able[/name_m], but I think people will be confused. But that’s not the end of the world.
I think I will stick with [name_m]Abel[/name_m]. [name_m]Even[/name_m] though I love word names, they give enough uniqueness that [name_m]Able[/name_m] might just be more complicated than the meaning is worth.
I’ll have to mull. While I agree that it’s not the end of the world, I wouldn’t want to cause unnecessary stress or conflict to a future son telling people his name.
Honestly, I’ve always considered [name_m]Abel[/name_m] and [name_m]Able[/name_m] to be the same (and think of [name_m]Abel[/name_m] itself as a ‘word name’). However, [name_m]Abel[/name_m] reads more as a name to me but that just may because I’m familiar with the [name_m]Abel[/name_m] from the bible.