Rachel writes:<\/p>\n
I have two kiddos; Lucy Allison and Asher Scott. Seriously, I thought we were being all original when we gave them those names. Sad, no? At least they’re classics.<\/p>\n
So, we are thinking about having a third and I must know…<\/p>\n
Is naming a child Moses a bad idea?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I remember when I was in high school, and heard for the first time of a baby being named Noah. I was SO SURPRISED. This is not the way I would have put it at the time, but my reaction was basically “OMG, religious much??” Like, why not just name him Peace That Passeth Understanding Smith and be done with it?<\/p>\n
And of course now a scant
twenty<\/strike> ten (*cough*) years later, Noah is a perfectly ordinary name, used by even completely non-religious people, and there were two Noahs in my son’s class last year. The names Isaac and Isaiah and Elijah are similar: formerly they would have been used only by particularly religious families, and now they are used by anyone.<\/p>\nI have a feeling Moses will be the same way. Right NOW it sounds a little…celebrity<\/span>, because of Gwyneth Paltrow—but I suspect that will wear off and then we will have another name to add to the boy category. And thank goodness, because that category is MIGHTY SKIMPY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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