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r/noah•
phledfred

Just found out my wife's having a boy...

I'm sure you can guess why I'm posting that. I searched the name on reddit to see what Noah's I should know about (I won't make a wordplay joke there) and was pleasantly surprised this sub exists.

Before I bless the kid with it, how do you guys like the name, honestly? I'm already tired of the ark jokes and haven't even heard one yet as we're keeping the name under wraps. I personally don't know anybody with the name which is surprising to me because it's such an awesome, sleek one. Plus it has the biblical bump which befuddled me further that it isn't more common.

So.....how you guys like your name?

Thanks in advance, your future dad.

Posted Dec 4, 2019, 8:32 AM UTC

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cottenball•

The only real problems with the name are

  1. when people say “no...uhhh” we think they’re talking to us
  2. there aren’t really any famous people named Noah to look up to. That also could be a good thing, there isn’t a stereotype yet.
  3. it can be kinda hard to hear over the phone
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masteroffm•

It always get misheard over the phone even when over embellishing the enunciation "know-hwuh". Once at Starbucks they wrote my name as "Nilla", but it made me laugh since I'm white.

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phledfredOP•

My 'Nilla

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EpicGAMERman69nice•

Vanilla

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Apple_Juicers•

Personally I'm very happy with it, I've heard it's becoming much more common than it used to be.

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masteroffm•

It was #1 boy name a couple years ago. So disorienting going places with lots of kids, "Noah, put that back!". Um... I wasn't touching anything...

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phledfredOP•

Noah.....just......put it back where you found it, please.

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ghostfacr•

I can't recommend it as it would dilute our power and eventually one of us will come for him because in the end there can be only one.

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LS05942•

I really like the name, very simple. Easy to spell when you’re a kid. It also feels very unique however; it’s been the top boy name for a few years, might be a lot of people named Noah in the next 10 years.

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cosmic_hermit666•

It’s a good name, but if you’re not religious and are in a high density Christian area—it can get fucking annoying. At work I’ll get a lot of: “thanks for your help! What’s your name?”, “I’m Noah”, “Oh, that’s such a good strong Christian name. Do you know the story of Noah”, “Yes, but I was just named after an actor”, “Well, the story of Noah goes...”. It doesn’t happen always, but it’s happened enough times to be obnoxious.

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phledfredOP•

Ughhh. I'll prep Noah for this mess. Thanks, Noah.

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pilluwed•

As someone who was raised religious, and isn't anymore. I dislike it.

The ark jokes get out of hand. I work mainly through a phone, and there's no hard syllables so I'm often misheard since there is nothing to enunciate in the the name. People often hear it as Nella or something along those lines.

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r3ditperson•

Noa is superior

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bigchill3•

Not recommended, attracts too many religious nuts

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