A friend was looking for a different name for his son, I suggested Bogart. They went with Cooper, and found there was a crowd of them! You can’t predict the way the herd will turn.
What I can’t figure about biblical naming is why some and not others? There’s a shitload of names in that book, why so many Zacharys and no Habakkuk’s? There was a Malachi in my daughter’s class. We needed an “A” name for my son and I couldn’t convince the wife to go with the big kahuna Abraham, my Ukrainian grandfather’s Jewish name. She thought it too old fashioned. Interestingly, his secular name was Adolf, in the 30’s he started going by Abe.
