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HelpRe: Sibset siting: poultry farming family edition
in reply to a message by Dianatiger
The "ah" theme is cheesy, but if they were going to do it then they should have committed to the bit and used an "ah" name for Isabella. Lilah, Mariah, Aaliyah?
I like Isaiah, and Isabella is okay, but I don't like two "Is" names in the same sibset. The one name that didn't have the matchy ending ended up with a matchy beginning...
I've never heard Uriah before. It kind of seems like an old person name. And "Uri" is a dangerous start to a name if you don't want people to think of the word "urine". Edit: I just looked at the US popularity chart and I'm surprised! I expected to see it have a small peak in the early 1900's or something and then fade into obscurity, but it it's actually pretty new. Huh.
Jake and Becky are hilariously normie compared to the "ah" siblings.
If I had to use "ah" for this set, I'd go with Josiah, Isaiah, Micah, and Lilah.
If I could do whatever I wanted, I would keep Isaiah, change Elijah to just Eli (or Elias), change Isabella to Arabella, and... idk what I'd do with Uriah. Maybe Jethro? For some reason that seems to fit.
I like Isaiah, and Isabella is okay, but I don't like two "Is" names in the same sibset. The one name that didn't have the matchy ending ended up with a matchy beginning...
I've never heard Uriah before. It kind of seems like an old person name. And "Uri" is a dangerous start to a name if you don't want people to think of the word "urine". Edit: I just looked at the US popularity chart and I'm surprised! I expected to see it have a small peak in the early 1900's or something and then fade into obscurity, but it it's actually pretty new. Huh.
Jake and Becky are hilariously normie compared to the "ah" siblings.
If I had to use "ah" for this set, I'd go with Josiah, Isaiah, Micah, and Lilah.
If I could do whatever I wanted, I would keep Isaiah, change Elijah to just Eli (or Elias), change Isabella to Arabella, and... idk what I'd do with Uriah. Maybe Jethro? For some reason that seems to fit.
This message was edited 11/26/2022, 9:08 PM
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Uriah Heep probably put most people off the name since the publication of David Copperfield in 1850. Dickens used it for a thoroughly nasty character with an equally dreadful mother, both of whom but especially Uriah are skilled confidence tricksters who claim to be humble and God-fearing. Uriah ends up in prison where David meets him and finds him, unsurprisingly, keeping up his image by reading, I think, a hymn book; perhaps a prayer book, I haven't read David Copperfield for years! And I think that in the early 1900s people were much more likely to read Dickens than they are now, and so I'm not surprised it's more popular now than then.
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