Thoughts on name

rider5344 · December 2013

Love the name Junah for a boy. Pronounced June-ah. It's def. a GP name (and made up though I have heard it before). So the question:

Helenahhandbasket · December 2013

I voted for "too uneek" but it's not a horrible sounding name.

Why not Jonah or Judas?

NerdyLucy · December 2013

I like Jude and Judah, and also Juno although it's feminine. I don't know how I feel about Junah.

ETA: Sorry to hijack, but we're always talking about how boy names are used on girls. Well, Juno is the opposite. I actually don't hate it as a girl's name for a boy. I'm not saying I'd use it though.

capulet · December 2013

See, the thing is...there are plenty of good names for boys that end in -ah (like Jonah, which is only one letter off!), but they're all Hebrew names, at least the ones I can think of. So I think it's a little weird for a made-up boy name to have the -a/ah ending which is typically feminine in Romance languages. If I just heard it, I would think it was for a girl. I don't really see the appeal of this name over a couple of similar-sounding and clearly masculine legit names.

aprilbaby2014 · December 2013

Judah, pleaseee . Junah sounds feminine since June is what you hear .

Mrs.G123 · December 2013

It would be setting him up for a lifetime of being asked whether that is a typo for Jonah or Judah. Spare him from this!!!

Skeemer · December 2013

Potential Employer: So Judah, tell me a little about yourself.
Junah: Um, it's JU-Nah.
Potential Employer: Jonah?
Junah: No...J-U-N-A-H.
Potential Employer: Oh..that's...can you spell it again so I can jot it down?
Junah: J-U-N-A-H.

Now take this scenario & mutiply it times 1,000 over the course of his life in various places.