Help with Baby's middle name

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Repre5entYHWH

Repre5entYHWH

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i wan't a cool middle name for my Boy who is due in November

Caleb ______ Heeb

so far i have for possibilities:

Caleb Turretin Heeb
Caleb Augustine Heeb
Caleb Jericho Heeb

any other suggestions you guys seem to have creative ones.
 
Caleb Jericho Heeb- I like it! It's hillbilly enough to be cool but not enough to be obnoxious!

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Caleb Joshua Heeb
Caleb Martyn Heeb
Caleb Machen Heeb
Caleb Murray Heeb
Caleb Tertullian Heeb
Caleb Athanasius Heeb
Calen Irenaeus Heeb
Caleb Justin Heeb
Caleb Luther Heeb
Caleb Spurgeon Heeb
Caleb Ryle Heeb
Caleb Boston Heeb
Caleb Fisher Heeb
 
Well, considering that Caleb means "dog", if I am not misled, you may want to consider in what way you want the boy to be dog-like. No, I'm not kidding.

Dogs have certain traits that in humans are very strong virtues, such as loyalty to their masters. That said, you may want to pick a middle name that carries the idea of loyalty or obedience to one's master. You could pick a name that actually means loyal or obedient (in Latin, Greek or Hebrew, say), or you could choose a person from history of Scripture that displayed that virtue.

Just a few thoughts.

Cheers,
 
Tripel said:
Why not pick a family name?
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That is a very good suggestion.

Our first has my mother's maiden name for her middle name.
Our second has one of my ancestresses from the 17th century as her namesake.
Our fourth has his middle name from my paternal grandfather.

Family names are rich with meaning!
 
Caleb Bronson Heeb.

Just throwing it out there because Death Wish 3 is on. Plus it is a cool name.
 
When I was expecting number four Caleb Michael was our choice for a boy. I really like how it flows. I also like Caleb Matthew.

Oops! You want cool! I guess I am just not there yet!
 
Repre5entYHWH said:
let's just say... i don't like my options.
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Oh, come on. If they're family names, they're good options. A while back I would have told you that I didn't have any good options in my family, but over time they have grown on me. We have lots of old testament names in my family tree. Moses, Asa, Israel, Peleg, etc. Those are all quality.

For the record, we didn't use any of those (couldn't convince my wife), but we ended up using family names for both of my children.
 
like i told my wife, any name will grow on you... Cleatus Jackbomb Heeb... will probably grow on you.... :think: hmmm not bad....
 
Is he your first? If so I have no suggestions to better everyone else's...
I really, really wanted to call my third child Tertius,( or actually as it turned out, Tertia), but her father wouldn't hear of it. I had to go with that, since I'd already exercised my right of veto over the worst name on his list.
 
For my second time I went to the hospital expecting 'little brother' but instead was surprised with twin little sisters! So totally stunned I had to scramble for a name for two girls and as a result they never did get middle names! This was way back before ultrasound of course when you didnt know anything at all about the baby until its arrival!
 
Eugene.

It has a great meaning. It sounds cool. It will open many doors for him.

Plus, he will belong to an elite club: Men with historically significant names that used to be fairly common that have woefully fallen to the side in the mad rush toward modernity and all of its insignificance.

I'm a card carrying member of that club along with most of the men in my family :)
 
LawrenceU said:
Plus, he will belong to an elite club: Men with historically significant names that used to be fairly common that have woefully fallen to the side in the mad rush toward modernity and all of its insignificance.
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That's funny.
We named my son after his great, great grandfather: Harry. I'm sure a lot people think we're crazy for giving him such an old man name. Oh well.
 
Does a name really matter? I know people want to consider meaning but is that really going to make any difference? If I name my kid Heathen but raise him up in fear and admonition of the Lord, I am going to believe he will grow to be a godly man. If on the other hand I name him something uber Christian or spiritual, yet let him be a spoiled, selfish brat, he's probably going to be a trouble-maker. I say worry less about the name, and more about the responsiblity to be a godly parent.
I'm sure people will argue that names mattered in the bible, but those names that God gave people HE gave them the name, so unless He does it, then it seems to not matter. I also personally don't get the naming your baby after some theologian. Just seems a bit overkill to introduce your boys - "meet Luther, Calvin, Owen, and Knox". We get it dude, you're reformed.
Okay I'm done. You may now flame away and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about now.
 
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I'm telling you, man -- DANGER. (I have some friends who gave their son this middle name, and it fits him perfectly. Not that he's always in danger, but he's just a fearless, passionate little boy.)
 
I'm going to have to go with:

Caleb Knox Heeb

OR

Caleb If-you-do-not-come-to-Christ-you-will-perish-in-hell Heeb (very puritan name...) :)
 
Caleb _____

My little munchkin (6 mos) is named Caleb Garrett Richards. Garrett is after my brother, who was after a great friend of my family who was my father's mentor on the session when he was ordained a ruling elder in the OPC as a young man. Gary Van Der Heide died when I was 7 or 8 years old.

Caleb is a great name. It is working well so far.
 
How about Boaz or Asher?? I love those!

Since we are on names.....

We have a boy's name picked out if this wee one is a boy but we have used most of the biblical girl names that we like.
Do you have any suggestions for a girl?

Lydia_____Anderson ??
 
LawrenceU said:
Eugene.

It has a great meaning. It sounds cool. It will open many doors for him.
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I have a brother-in-law called Eugene - it was a family name on my husband's side. I wouldn't go for it - he'd spend all his time having to explain whether he was pronounced You-JEAN or YOU-jean. Or sometimes even his own family would wrangle over which was correct. He would get called Huge for short (or something as near as makes no matter) - or Jean which would invite teasing...all of these things have befallen previous Eugenes. Finally, in some circles it is (like Theresa or Dominic or Benedict or Bernadette) a quite distinctively Catholic name :(
Apologies if you meant that it was your own middle name, Lawrence! :)

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MamaArcher said:
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Do you have any suggestions for a girl?

Lydia_____Anderson ??
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How about Tamar or Talitha?
Or, how many of those wee ones are girls already- is it too late for Tertia??
 
MamaArcher said:
We have 7 girls and 2 boys.
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Too late!!
... Octavia??

Mindy is right, Damaris is very pretty. I t5hink I've read a sermon of Spurgeon's called "a woman named Damaris" in which he drew out all the beautiful implications of the little we're told about her
 
MamaArcher said:
How about Boaz or Asher?? I love those!

Since we are on names.....

We have a boy's name picked out if this wee one is a boy but we have used most of the biblical girl names that we like.
Do you have any suggestions for a girl?

Lydia_____Anderson ??
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Boaz is still an option for us....

Lydia Evangeline Anderson

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it will be my second kid (the first being a girl)

as far as naming it after a theologian... it really doesn't matter to me if i do or not... but i prefer it to be something theological... i'm not going to name my kid hitler for obvious reasons.
 
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