Message: "Beulah" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Beulah

by Helena (guest)

9/9/2004, 12:19 AM

This name is completely weird, and I could never imagine it on a 21st century child, but I'm convinced it works well for a 19th century heroine.

What do you think of the name Beulah - for a CHARACTER, not a person? :)

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- Miss Claire

9/9/2004, 9:47 AM

Beulah is good, imo:
- before the 20th century
- prononced the Hebrew way: "be" like in "bed" - "oo" - "la".

So yeah, good for a 19th century heroine!

- Oona (guest)

9/9/2004, 7:51 AM

My great grandmother was Beulah Mae - she was born in the 19th century - I think the name was significantly more popular then than it is now (where its basically ridiculed and hated).

- kathleen (guest)

9/9/2004, 5:25 AM

My grandfather's oldest sister(one of 9) and his mother was named Belah. They were from a plantation in North Carolina. They were kind of mean so I can picture it on an old bitty, but it could work for a heroine. They were born about 100 plus years ago I guess 1900. Is that the turn of the 19th century?

- Elinor (guest)

9/9/2004, 2:06 AM

I think it'd work on a 17th-century Puritan ... I love a lot of those names, they're just so unusual, but wouldn't use them myself. At any rate, I like Beulah for a character.

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