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Need help finding the meaning and origin of Ossiah

by layne (guest)

11/16/2008, 4:11 PM

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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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +4

11/16/2008, 10:01 PM

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.

- layne (guest) +3

11/17/2008, 8:03 AM

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

- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +2

11/17/2008, 11:00 AM

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.

- Bastien (Bastien Rosier)

11/18/2008, 3:59 PM

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.

- Layne (guest)

11/17/2008, 1:35 PM

Thankyou very much for your suggestions and time. You have been very helpful

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