[gundog]

Jeeves.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Mohammed and Akhmed are probably right up there.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

All right! All the names I grew up with in the 50s are coming back! Here’s to all the classics! Karen, Susan, Thomas, Robert, Michael, Kathryn, Steven, Mary, Fred, Nicholas, Betsy, John, William, Linda, Deborah, Mark, Barbara, Nancy, Charles, Donna and Sylvia.

The only problem in the UK is that there aren’t many babies to give the classical names to. But “Mohammad” fills the gap.

[Uncle Miltie]

Mohammed bin Mohammed

[Diana in Wisconsin]

In our current crop of Great Nieces we have a, ‘Hazel’ and a, ‘Vivian.’

Both of them are perfect in every way, of course! :)

[Dr. Sivana]

Presently, James Smith is the most common name in the U.S. I know a Jim Smith. It causes problems, including the time when his Republican membership in Indiana was cancelled because his upstairs neighbor, Jim Smith, pulled a Dem ballot, and got my friend Jim Smith removed because of the mix-up.

[Waverunner]

Fiona and Catarina are recent names in my family.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Bring back REAL vintage names, Ceolmund, Hereward, Sigeberht, Hunbeorht, Leofgifu and Wihtburg.

Solid English names.

[DouglasKC]

Aladdin? Abdul?

[odawg]

I have always liked the name Alice. That developed from my intense love affair I had for a golden haired, blue-eyed senior girl at school. I was in the fourth grade and me being honorable and everything, I wanted to marry her.

[Lizavetta]

Prudence
Guinivere
Bronwyn (Welsh, I think)

[Getready]

Yup...James Muhammed Akbar.....so vintage....

[dfwgator]

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[af_vet_1981]

The name has roots in Hebrew, according to ancestry.com, and is derived from the biblical name ‘Yaakov,’ meaning 'Supplanter.'

Sigh ...

It only means "supplanter" if you are rooting for, or listening to, the wrong team. The LORD spoke to Rebecca, not Isaac, to ensure Isaac's blessing did not go to the wrong seed. Jacob obeyed the word of his mother against his initial instincts. Thank God.

Genesis 25:
[21] And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
[22] And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
[23] And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
[24] And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
[25] And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
[26] And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.


Romans 9:
[10] And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
[11] (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
[12] It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
[13] As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
[14] What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

[dfwgator]

What about Nigel?

[irish guard]

Wait….you can give babies Christian names in the UK? I thought everyone had to have Muslim names these days?

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually there were two apostles named James (Jacob): James the son of Zebedee and James the son of Alphaeus. See Matthew 10.2-4. Similar lists in Luke 6.14-16 and Mark 3.16-19.

[Rummyfan]

This is one heckuva lot better than Mohammed.

[sneakers]

My grandchildren are Eleanor, Henry, Simon and Josephine

[unread]

Harold, Chester, Louis, Robert, William, Richard, Steven...

Now there's some handles a man can live with.. :)