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Asa

I prefer Asa. It's a nice, underused name. I appreciate the rareness of Amos, but it's not something I like all that much. It might end up growing on me though.

Asa!

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I do like Amos, but it doesn't even compare to Asa.

Amos is my personal favorite of the two, but to be honest, both are lovely.

Amos

Asa, by a mile

Amos

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Asa sounds too feminine to me, though I do know it's a masculine name and has been one forever. It still sounds feminine.

Asa. Times a million.

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Not because Amos isn't a good name. It is. I like it. But I love, love, love Asa. It's just so spunky and works on a little boy through to an old man.

Amos. I heard a woman calling her son Asa the other day and to me, it says "I'm too hip to act excited that I found an obscure Hebrew boy name on the internet that ends in A, because -a on guys is so sexay" I mean, it doesn't give a "classic" impression at all - it sounds just as much a modern and inventive usage to me as Shea or Anakin or Caoimhe. Amos does sound classic, although I share beethoven's Southern porch-sitter image of it.

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BTW I don't think Asa is a bad name, I just think that where I live, it is not a classic by any stretch.

This message was edited 9/4/2010, 11:26 PM

Amos

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It's friendlier

Amos, def. The anus thing doesn't bother me much, even though I definitely think of it immediately. Asa seems more modern and out of left field. It doesn't sit on a crickety old porch rocking chair like Amos does, to me.

Asa, hands down.

Asa. It's very handsome, strong, and doesn't rhyme with "anus".

I prefer Amos, though Asa's also nice.

Asa sounds much stronger.

Amos, though neither really strikes my fancy.

Asa definitely.