Asher, Micah, Matthias, and...?

Boy Names
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[name_m]Hi[/name_m] Berries!

We’re expecting baby #7, and while we don’t plan to find out baby’s gender, if we hold to track record, this one will be boy #4. Our children’s names are in my signature. :slight_smile:

We prefer Bible names that are fresher sounding for our boys. Each of our sons has a family name in the middle, although we’re kind of running out of those. Contenders for middle position this time around are [name_u]James[/name_u] and [name_m]Harold[/name_m], and maybe [name_m]Christoph[/name_m].

If our youngest daughter had been a boy, she would have been [name_m]Nehemiah[/name_m] [name_u]James[/name_u]. I still love it, but my hubby wants some more choices. So far, the only other boy name that I’m loving on right now is [name_u]Asa[/name_u]. My husband likes it alright, but is reluctant to use a third “A” name.

Other names I’ve proposed that he has nixed: [name_m]Abram[/name_m], [name_m]Jethro[/name_m], [name_m]Boaz[/name_m], [name_m]Gideon[/name_m]
Names that we like but are too popular: [name_m]Josiah[/name_m] (way more common in our circles than in the general population), [name_m]Caleb[/name_m]
Names we cannot use, mostly due to close friend’s children: [name_m]Elijah[/name_m], [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m], Ekeziel, [name_m]Judah[/name_m], [name_m]Silas[/name_m]

My husband really wants to avoid another “A” or “M” name. He also seems to hate every “G” name ever. We have a very [name_m]German[/name_m]-sounding 1-syllable last name that starts with “K”, so we want to avoid 1-syllable names as well. I try to avoid at least the top 50 in terms of popularity.

Oh, and positive meaning and/or namesake is important to us. No bad-guys-with-cool-names for us, if that makes sense.

Any ideas for us? I feel as though I have been through every possible choice over the past 13 years of baby naming!

Thanks in Advance!

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I love your kids’ names btw! [name_f]Olivet[/name_f] [name_f]Autumn[/name_f] in particular is lovely - I like the sneaky connection to the Mount of Olives! And I’m a big fan of large families.

Suggestions:

[name_m]Lazarus[/name_m] / [name_m]Eleazar[/name_m] / Eliezar
[name_m]Reuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Zachariah[/name_m]
[name_m]Isaac[/name_m]
[name_m]Zebedee[/name_m]
[name_m]Obadiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Ozias[/name_m]
[name_m]Philip[/name_m]
[name_m]Ezra[/name_m]
[name_m]Barnabas[/name_m]
Issachar
[name_m]Ephraim[/name_m]
[name_m]Lemuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Emmanuel[/name_m] (too popular for you?)
[name_m]Hezekiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Simeon[/name_m]
Gabriel

My favourites for you are Eliezar (Eliezar [name_m]Harold[/name_m] is amazing), [name_m]Ozias[/name_m], [name_m]Isaac[/name_m], [name_m]Lemuel[/name_m], [name_m]Barnabas[/name_m], and [name_m]Reuel[/name_m]. Well, I actually like most of them A LOT with your sibset, so . . . ! Hopefully you find some inspiration!

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Looks like you like names beginning in vowels or m, I’m also partial to this, I also love Biblical names with positive meanings and ‘big’ families :wink: congrats on your new mystery addition. I’m trying to think of some things but man you’re right you sure have looked over most of the Biblical options…
I like the idea of [name_m]Isaac[/name_m] for you. Part due to my husband pushing it for a while but I couldn’t get on board literally for reasons based on other names and I do quite like it. It starts with a vowel you haven’t used for a first and its it fits your requirements? I think? We also have a lot of children in our circles and sometimes I feel like so so many names are used. We were filling out letters to a group of friends, probably thirty kids and I laid them all out and realized somehow we had managed to not repeat any names and I was all hmm two of the nanes we like for boys are more common Hebrew names and I do hope no one snatches them up… And as for girls names I worry also the names I like. In our circle at least… Might get snatched up and one we don’t know the child well but technically we know one… So I’m sort of consistently on edge with I really hope they don’t steal it hehe. Only expecting two more in the family this year so that’s an awesome exciting blessing but also I’m crazy curious what the names will be! I like how the names you have used aren’t super common though. And I keep thinking of perfect m and a names to go with them… [name_m]Benedict[/name_m] I like. [name_m]Lazarus[/name_m] I’ve always liked, [name_m]Peter[/name_m] I like, hmm…

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I feel like I could have written this post. We are expecting baby 5 (boy 3) and also use Biblical Hebrew names. We have a [name_u]Noah[/name_u] and [name_m]Isaac[/name_m]. I’m going to follow your thread for ideas! What about [name_m]Simon[/name_m] or [name_m]Samson[/name_m]? [name_m]Abraham[/name_m]?

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Thanks for the suggestions! It’s funny that you both mention [name_m]Isaac[/name_m]. It’s always been one of my husband’s favorites, but with the “K” last name, we thought that people would slur them together and it would sound as though his name where “Isah”.

I want to like [name_m]Barnabas[/name_m]. I went to grade school with one who went by the nickname “[name_m]Barn[/name_m]”, which always sounded funny and sometimes he got teased for it. But I absolutely, positively, hate [name_m]Barney[/name_m]. Hmmmm…

I like [name_m]Zebedee[/name_m], too. I’ve always wondered how well it would “grow up”, though.

Thanks again for the ideas. :slight_smile:

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So I don’t have any wonderful ideas, but the idea struck me that since you have two M names and two A names, maybe you should double up another letter! That of course would leave one child out with her own letter, but just for fun…

[name_m]Ezra[/name_m] (like a pp mentioned)
Elkanah (a little far out, but I rather like the sound and the elk/nature connection)
[name_m]Enoch[/name_m]
[name_u]Elisha[/name_u]
[name_m]Ephraim[/name_m]
[name_m]Esaias[/name_m] (cool form of [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m]!)

[name_m]Obadiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Omar[/name_m] (maybe quite obscure, most people wouldn’t recognize [name_m]Omar[/name_m] as a Bible name. But I do believe it’s in there!)
Othniel (nn [name_m]Niel[/name_m] maybe)

And Othniel makes me think of [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m]. Such a great, solid name that seems to be getting some attention lately, at least on nameberry.
That’s too bad about [name_m]Gideon[/name_m], it’s one of my favourite Bible names! I do love [name_m]Mordecai[/name_m] or [name_m]Malachi[/name_m], but that’s another M name! Maybe [name_m]Solomon[/name_m]? Or
[name_m]Abel[/name_m]
[name_m]Canaan[/name_m] (a place name, but so handsome!)
[name_m]Gilead[/name_m] (there was a lady in nameberry for a while who had a son by this name I believe)
Joash
[name_m]Jonah[/name_m]
[name_m]Joseph[/name_m]
[name_m]Moses[/name_m] (another M name, I know!)
[name_m]Reuben[/name_m] (nn [name_u]Rue[/name_u] is cute!)
All the best.

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[name_m]How[/name_m] about:

[name_m]Levi[/name_m]
[name_m]Ezekiel[/name_m]
[name_u]James[/name_u]
[name_m]Timothy[/name_m]
[name_m]Isaac[/name_m]

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[name_m]Eli[/name_m]
[name_m]Saul[/name_m]
tobias

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[name_u]Elias[/name_u]
[name_m]Jonah[/name_m]
[name_m]Thaddeus[/name_m]
[name_m]Apollo[/name_m]
[name_m]Cyrus[/name_m]
[name_m]Clement[/name_m]
[name_m]Tobias[/name_m]
[name_m]Isaiah[/name_m]

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My top biblical boy names are [name_m]Ezra[/name_m], and [name_m]Malachi[/name_m] (nn [name_u]Kai[/name_u])

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I probably should have mentioned avoiding “[name_f]El[/name_f]” names. I know they are super common in the Bible, but with my middle daughter’s name being what it is, I don’t want to be too matchy.

I think my real problem is that I really want to use [name_m]Nehemiah[/name_m] or [name_u]Asa[/name_u] and I don’t want to give my husband any other choices. LOL

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What about [name_m]Jedediah[/name_m]. Means friend of God, I love that. [name_m]Plenty[/name_m] of cute nicknames. [name_m]Jed[/name_m], [name_m]Jeddy[/name_m], [name_m]Jedi[/name_m].

[name_m]Adam[/name_m]. [name_m]Abel[/name_m]. [name_m]Samson[/name_m].

Congrats on baby #7! ”

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Haha :slight_smile: Maybe you can get your husband on board with one of those, even if you give him other choices.

Other ideas that haven’t been mentioned:

[name_m]Bartholomew[/name_m]
[name_m]Benaiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Cornelius[/name_m] (nn. [name_u]Neal[/name_u]?)
[name_u]Ira[/name_u]
[name_m]Jabez[/name_m]
[name_u]Jadon[/name_u]
[name_m]Jeremiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Joel[/name_m]
[name_m]Zachariah[/name_m]
Zuriel

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I love [name_m]Nehemiah[/name_m] [name_u]James[/name_u]. I think it’s a winner.

And speaking as a mom of 10: if your husband isn’t satisfied with the names currently on the list, then he needs to be the one to add more. My husband got into veto mode for awhile, not contributing anything new but also vetoing everything I suggested. Nip that in the bud.

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Thanks so much!

The name [name_m]Samson[/name_m] is totally soured on me due to a local kid with a bad reputation. I love [name_m]Abel[/name_m], but it’s an “A” name as well! Sigh…

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I agree. I need to talk him into sticking with the original plan. :wink: :lol:

And speaking as a mom of 10: if your husband isn’t satisfied with the names currently on the list, then he needs to be the one to add more. My husband got into veto mode for awhile, not contributing anything new but also vetoing everything I suggested. Nip that in the bud.

Our “system”, if you want to call it that, has always been for me to give him a short list and let him pick the favorite. That’s mostly because I’m the name nerd and his tastes are very “safe”. We’ve always come to compromises that we both are happy with, but if left entirely to himself, our children would be [name_m]John[/name_m], [name_f]Sarah[/name_f], etc. It’s very rare for him to come up with something more interesting on his own.

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I love [name_m]Zedekiah[/name_m]- great meaning, cute nickname. My husband’s name is [name_m]Zachariah[/name_m], and he’s always enjoyed having a common nickname and an unusual longer name. I also rec: [name_m]Titus[/name_m], [name_m]Linus[/name_m], [name_m]Raphael[/name_m], [name_m]Nicodemus[/name_m], [name_m]Philip[/name_m], [name_m]Cyrus[/name_m], and [name_m]Ethan[/name_m]

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oh, and [name_u]Jesse[/name_u]. [name_u]Jesse[/name_u] is my favorite biblical name