Need help finding the meaning and origin of Ossiah
Ok here is the truth, I am expecting and my husband and I decided on the name Ossiah if the child turns out to be a boy and Olivia of it should be a girl.
The problem is everywhere I look for a definition and origin of Ossiah I get a negative retoric about Obama as the "Obama Messiah".
So I would like to know the origin and actual meaning of the name Ossiah so I know what I am truely naming my son.
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Where did you find this name? I can only find eight different instances in the US Census of persons listed as Ossiah, and it turns out on further investigation that at least one of those was really a mistake for Ossian. It's a very, very rare name and without further information it looks to me like the best guess is that it's either a mistake or deliberate alteration of Biblical names like Uzziah and Isaiah.
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Thanks for the information. Lol actually my first 2 children are named marissa and nadia and to stay in alphabetical order my husband suggested the name origionally joking because my cousin recently named her son Messiah. I hadn't heard it before and I liked the sound of the name...so that was how that name came about for us
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Well, then, your husband probably heard it as one of the references to Obama and didn't realize that it has never been a name with any history of real use to speak of. :)Obadiah, Omri, and Ozni might be some Old Testament male names starting with O you could consider.
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Actually...I have actually heard this used as a name -- a former teacher's son -- and apparently it was a name that had been in use for quite some time in his wife's family. The teacher was a bit eccentric, and I greatly enjoyed his class.
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Thankyou very much for your suggestions and time. You have been very helpful
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