Gender: M
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: "breath"
Popularity in 2008: #360
The name of Adam and Eve's unfortunate younger son, compensates with positive connotations: capable, competent, ready and willing. It has literary connections to the novels of Dickens and Trollope, and is also one of the few well-known Old Testament names not plagued by overuse.
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