I completely love
Jedidiah! It flows back and forth with
Benedict as my #1 / #2 name. I think I like
Jedidiah David a touch more than
Jedidiah Alan (for the echoed D's and I's, but then, I'm biased; glance at my sig ;-)). [And
ETA I like the nn Jed
i as much as the nn
Jed! But I'm a geek.] When you say "in the same style as"
David and
Joel, I get a Biblical feeling. What about...
Jedidiah AdamJedidiah AndrewJedidiah AsherJedidiah Bartholomew (he'd be a helluva speller)
Jedidiah Benedict (one of my all-time favorite combos)
Jedidiah BenjaminJedidiah DanielJedidiah DathanJedidiah ElijahJedidiah EmmanuelJedidiah EphraimJedidiah Ethan (always a popular choice)
Jedidiah Ezekiel (love this, he could be
Jed or Zeke)
Jedidiah GabrielJedidiah Gideon (I have a personal attachment to this, natch ;D)
Jedidiah HiramJedidiah IsaacJedidiah Jacob (with all the J mn's, of course there's the JJ nn risk)
Jedidiah JamesJedidiah JaredJedidiah Jericho (which I find frankly
hot)
Jedidiah JonasJedidiah Levi (also love this)
Jedidiah MalachiJedidiah Matthias (another personal fave)
Jedidiah PhineasJedidiah SamsonJedidiah SilasJedidiah Thaddeus (yet another personal fave)
Jedidiah Timothy (very nice rhythm imo)
Jedidiah TobiasJedidiah Zachariah (hey, why not?)
You could go even more hard core with one of these:
Jedidiah Anaiah (or
Benaiah,
Delaiah, etc)
Jedidiah EdomJedidiah EleazarJedidiah IsaiahJedidiah Josephus
Jedidiah Nicodemus (rendering either
Jed or Nic/k /
Nico)
Jedidiah TimaeusJedidiah Zacchaeus
But probably my #1
Jed combo is
Jedidiah Hawking (from the physicist
Stephen Hawking), which is obviously neither Biblical nor remotely similar to anything as ordinary as
David.
If you had any kind of hankerin to go the, uh, odd route I went with Hawking, you
might, just
perhaps, like one of these:
Jedidiah CedarJedidiah Concord
Jedidiah Courage
Jedidiah Falcon
Jedidiah Forest (or
Forrest)
Jedidiah FoxJedidiah Harrier
Jedidiah JasperJedidiah Jaeger
Jedidiah Merit (I really like this, the echo of short E's and I's)
Jedidiah Midnight (ditto the echo)
Jedidiah Nazarene
Jedidiah Nazareth
Jedidiah Nighthawk
Jedidiah OrionJedidiah PhoenixJedidiah Samarion
Jedidiah Samaritan
Jedidiah Stone
Jedidiah Swift
Jedidiah Thorn/e
Jedidiah ValerianJedidiah Valor
Jedidiah Viridian
Also, if you don't mind seein it as a mn,
Jesse Jedidiah was on my list for ages, and was one of my choices when I was pregnant with
Sophie had she been a boy.
I'm sorry if I've repeated any suggestions already made. I hope
something on one of these lists appeals to you!
This message was edited 10/4/2007, 9:00 PM