Asa for a boy?

[Anonymous]

I love this name. Noah was my first choice but DH adamantly refuses. All the other Biblical -ah names are too evangelical these days for me. DS is Leo.

Concerns are pronunciation and that it is feminine. I know 2 boys given this name; 1 is a Jewish teenager, 1 a biracial 5 year old.

DCUM hive thoughts?

[Anonymous]

It's a great name! Shouldn't be a problem IMO

[Anonymous]

I really don’t like it, OP. Really, really don’t like it. Please rethink this.

[Anonymous]

I know 3-4 boys named Asa (and no girls named Asa). Interestingly, they all have fairly significant developmental disabilities.

[Anonymous]

I like the name a lot but you should know there are some problematic men, mainly Asa Carter, with this name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter

As a white woman with white children I would always be about that association.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the name a lot but you should know there are some problematic men, mainly Asa Carter, with this name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter

As a white woman with white children I would always be about that association.

Edit: always be worried about

[Anonymous]

Please do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the name a lot but you should know there are some problematic men, mainly Asa Carter, with this name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter

As a white woman with white children I would always be about that association.

Ah I didn’t know this. I am Asian. I liked that it is a Hebrew name but easy to pronounce across languages.

[Anonymous]

I like it with the nickname Ace

[Anonymous]

For some reason, a novel i read a long time ago called Asa, As I Knew Him sprang to mind.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28091.Asa_as_I_Knew_Him

I think the name is fine, unless kids try to turn it into As* to tease him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like the name a lot but you should know there are some problematic men, mainly Asa Carter, with this name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter

As a white woman with white children I would always be about that association.

Ah I didn’t know this. I am Asian. I liked that it is a Hebrew name but easy to pronounce across languages.

I agree it's a beautiful name. I hope others can reclaim it but I don't think it could be me.

[Anonymous]

like

[Anonymous]

It’s a name that’s easy to mispronounce and make fun of.

At any rate, your husband shot it down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a name that’s easy to mispronounce and make fun of.

At any rate, your husband shot it down.

Sorry, saw that Noah was the name he shot down

[Anonymous]

Asa Butterfield is cute so ima fan of it