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July 30th, 2009, 04:13 PM
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this is probably my guilty pleasure name.. ive always LOVED the name.. i love that it sounds a little mideval-ish.. anyone else secretly love this name? or atleast like it LOL..
im gona try to persuae DH into this name! but he just really doesnt like ANY names! his idea of a name = Tony. i mean.. really? lol not Anthony, just.. Tony..
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July 30th, 2009, 04:18 PM
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I've always liked it
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July 30th, 2009, 04:25 PM
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I like it :]
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July 30th, 2009, 04:35 PM
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I like it! To me is sounds like a bold but still gentle type of name. It's biblical isn't it?
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July 30th, 2009, 05:34 PM
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Love it!I don't think it's a guilty pleasure name at all -- it could totally work in a modern setting.
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July 30th, 2009, 06:13 PM
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July 30th, 2009, 07:27 PM
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yay im glad others like it! LOL i usually like names no one else likes at all!!
it isn biblical i believe, ive never read the bible, but i had checked out the names in the begining, and never saw Ephraim there, but when i looked up the name today it says in the bible Ephraim is the son of Joseph
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July 30th, 2009, 07:54 PM
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July 30th, 2009, 08:08 PM
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Ephraim was the second son of Joseph, and the head of the Tribe of Ephraim.
I've always loved the name, and don't consider it a GP at all. DH likes it but doesn't love it. *shrug*
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July 30th, 2009, 09:50 PM
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whats GP mean??
im not real big on the bible, i just like the name LOL.. i would hope that no one thinks i used it bc it being a biblical name
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July 31st, 2009, 08:04 AM
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i like it!
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July 31st, 2009, 09:28 AM
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Most people will assume that if you use a less popular Biblical name, you've read the bible. Assuming they know it's in the Bible, anyways. Matthew, Michael, Mark, John, Luke, Noah.. those people don't make assumptions about. But get into the Naomi, Enoch, Ephraim, Job realm, and people will assume. Doesn't really matter what people assume, in my opinion. People will know where you got it, but wouldn't think much of it anyways.
No, if your sibset was like Ephraim, Hezekiah, Enoch, and Magdalene....
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July 31st, 2009, 09:38 AM
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se i didnt even get it from the bible LOL.. the first time i ever heard of the name, i was in child development classes in highschool, where my last period of the day was in our HS's daycare, and one of the teachers' sons was Ephraim, and we called him Eephy.. although i dont like that nickname lol.. she might have gottin it from the bible though..
i didnt even know it was from the bible til i looked it up yesterday, and i dont normally like biblical names because i dont want someone to think thats where i got the name from.. but this one i can make the exception
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July 31st, 2009, 09:42 AM
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Whoops! I didn't mean to stir things up by asking! I was just genuinely curious about the name and thought it could be biblical. I wouldn't always associate the name with the bible or anything. Nor do I think many people would.
When you say "Eephy" how would you pronounce that "***-EE"?
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July 31st, 2009, 09:47 AM
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we said it like Ee-Fee... i think i might have been the one to make it up from the begining LOL>. and here i am not liking it hahah!! other than that, i dont think there is a nickname for Ephraim, but i know i def dont like Eephy LOL
and u didnt stir anything up!!! just wondering what everyone thought!
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July 31st, 2009, 09:52 AM
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I did a quick search for a nickname, and I could only find "Efrem". Which then reminded me I used to work with an Efrem, and always just assumed that was his name. Now I'm thinking his full name was most likely Ephraim. Kinda neat to know now! 
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July 31st, 2009, 09:54 AM
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I did a quick search for a nickname, and I could only find "Efrem". Which then reminded me I used to work with an Efrem, and always just assumed that was his name. Now I'm thinking his full name was most likely Ephraim. Kinda neat to know now!
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July 31st, 2009, 09:55 AM
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I did a quick search for a nickname, and I could only find "Efrem". Which then reminded me I used to work with an Efrem, and always just assumed that was his name. Now I'm thinking his full name was most likely Ephraim. Kinda neat to know now!
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July 31st, 2009, 11:03 AM
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well i know Efram is an alternative to Ephraim.. same sound diff spelling
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July 31st, 2009, 11:18 AM
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Eh, I wouldn't let where people assume you got a name from bother you.
We got Luke from the Bible, and everyone assumes Star Wars.
We're going to use Emmett, which we got from Back to the Future, but most people (at least women) are going to think Twilight.
Doesn't matter what other people assume. =) Though it's been two years now and we still get Star Wars jokes. Seriously people? Really?
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