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[Opinions] Enoch
How do you feel about Enoch for a boy? It's my great-great-great-grandfather's name. I had forgotten about him until a minute ago, and while I thought the name was too much before, I don't really feel that way now, and might even consider it usable and likable.Enoch Benjamin
Enoch Daniel (I think this was actually my ancestor's name)
Enoch Henry
Enoch James
Enoch Josiah*
Enoch Samuel
Enoch Silas
Enoch TobiasIf anything, it Enoch would make a FABULOUS name for a cat, methinks.

This message was edited 3/19/2010, 8:55 AM

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Love the name and love all your combos! I knew a little boy with Enoch as his mn and always thought it was very cool and different.
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Love itTo me both Enoch and Ebenezer (which I'd put in the same category) are wonderful, underestimated and underused names!From your list I like Enoch Henry & Enoch Tobias.
How about Enoch Sebastian?

This message was edited 3/20/2010, 8:06 AM

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I really like it, but I don't think I'd ever use it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I vaguely remember it having biblical connotations, and because it isn't a name thats popular anyway, like Sarah or Daniel, the religious association would be too overpowering for me.
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Perhaps for a cat, yeah. The name reminds me too much of Eunuch though.
For some reason though, it also reminds me Esau, which I quite like the sound of.
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Esau is awesome! Thanks!:)
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I have rarely read anything termed "horror", whether a novel or a short story, which truly scared me. There is one exception. I read a short story once. I can't remember the title of the anthology in which I read it nor can I recall the name of the author. But it was about a man who was a serial killer. But, you see, the man himself was not really the killer. The man lived with the constant presence of a demon whom only he could hear, though even he couldn't see the demon. The demon prompted him to kill. The demon, being a disembodied being, could tell him of potential victims, where they were even though miles away, what they were doing, where they would be in the near future, so that the man could arrange to be where they were going to be in order to put the murder into place. The man himself didn't want to murder the people. The demon drove him to it. If he didn't do it, the demon would torture and eventually kill HIM.Well, the man was finally arrested for one of the murders. He told the authorities about the demon and of course, was not believed. The DA came to visit the man while he was in jail. The DA brought up the demon, humored the man while pretending to believe him, and asked him to just send the demon along to him and let him take him off his hands for a while. The man asked the demon to go, and to his surprise, the demon did. A few hours later the DA came screaming into the jail, screaming about how the demon was trying to force him to go kill, and no, he wasn't going to do it, make him go away, make him go away, and then the demon killed the DA right in front of the serial murderer's eyes.That was was the only story I've ever read that really scared me. The name of the demon and the title of the story, was Enoch. That's why this to me is one of the most horrid names ever. I canNOT get the image out of my mind.
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Man, I wish you could remember who wrote that story. It sounds really neat. I love a good scary story. Enoch is the perfect name for a demon. Wait: I googled Enoch. Was it in the book "Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares" by Robert Bloch? Published in 1960?
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Yeah, after I made the post, I too googled it and discovered the author was Robert Bloch. I didn't find the title of that particular book, and I believe that I read the story in an anthology of stories by different authors, not in that particular book, but I'm betting that's where it first appeared.
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LOLYou're scared of all my names today ;)
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I like it. I like it the same way I like Ebenezer and Ichabod. It's so old and dark and heavy and unneccesary, and I like that.I like all the combos you have there, but I think my fave is Enoch Henry. It's serious but also friendly. Enoch Daniel would also be great, and I'm not even a Daniel fan.Most excellent cat name too, agreed.
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