Have the Jehova's Witnesses ever considered changing their names?

People get so caught up with thinking that Jehovah is so concerned with how we pronounce his name.

He is our Father and we are His precious children. He loves us despite our imperfections.

How do you feel when a small child that you love tries to speak, perhaps even tries to say your name, but doesn't get the pronounciation quite right? Doesn't the child's efforts become endearing to you?

I have a friend who's name is Kahmala and my 21 month old daughter calls her Mia. Kahmala loves it so much that my daughter even tries to say her name. She'll probably always want her to call her Mia now. When my brother Lorenzo was 2 my brother Nickolas was born. Lorenzo could not say Nickolas, he called him Nickas - which my mom decided to spell Nikkis. When Nickolas started to talk he could not say Lorenzo, he called him Renzo. 10 years later those are still their nicknames.

Just as we find it endearing when our children make these efforts, our God Jehovah does as well. I highly doubt he will keep us from everlasting life for such a 'crime'.

In researching God's personal name, Jehovah, you'll find that the early Hebrew contained no vowels, the reader supplying the correct vowels as they read along. Thus there is no actual way for reader's today to know exactly which vowels, whether a, e, i, o, u, was used. However, the most commonly accepted form in use today is Jehovah. The same could be said for other Hebrew names such as Jeremiah, Joshua, even Jesus. It's not knowing the exact way of pronouncing the name that is important, but rather that the name is used. Romans 10:13 says, " For everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved." Some Bible translations substitute God's name in this verse with the word LORD, but whenever the word LORD is used in all capital letters, the original word is Jehovah. By reading the Preface at the front of most Bibles, it will explain this. However, some Bible translations have completely removed the name from their Bibles although the name appears nearly 7,000 in the Hebrew scriptures alone. Jesus, in the Lord's Prayer, asked that we pray that God's name be "hallowed" or made holy. And Jesus stated at John 17:6 and 26 that he had made his father's name known to those in the world, the ones he preached to.

“Jehovah” is the best known English pronunciation of the divine name, although “Yahweh” is favored by most Hebrew scholars. The oldest Hebrew manuscripts present the name in the form of four consonants, commonly called the Tetragrammaton (from Greek te‧tra-, meaning “four,” and gram′ma, “letter”). These four letters (written from right to left) are יהוה and may be transliterated into English as YHWH (or, JHVH).

The Hebrew consonants of the name are therefore known. The question is, Which vowels are to be combined with those consonants? Vowel points did not come into use in Hebrew until the second half of the first millennium C.E. (See HEBREW, II [Hebrew Alphabet and Script].) Furthermore, because of a religious superstition that had begun centuries earlier, the vowel pointing found in Hebrew manuscripts does not provide the key for determining which vowels should appear in the divine name.

The same way that we, here in this culture, rarely use the name Yeheshua, but prefer to use "Jesus", I'd say no. I have a hard enough time with English, let alone Hebrew. I love the sound of the name of Jehovah, but I also love the sound of Yahweh. No matter in what language it's said, I love it. I don't think anyone will be faulted for mispronouncing a name, as long as we magnify the glory of the personage who carries it. If my child, for some reason couldn't pronounce "mama", I'd still love him and appreciate him trying. I hope if I'm saying it wrong, Jehovah, or Yahweh will look at me like a child with a speech impediment, and love me anyway.

The same thing as Jehovah!

So how will you tell the french and spanish to say his name and maybe Chinese?

JHVH, YHWH, Jehovah, Jehovah, etc there all the same to me!

on an identical time as we've been waiting in line for a table at a properly-liked eating place, the host stated as out "Smith - party of four". no one replied, so he then suggested "Who has a celebration of four, and desires to be named Smith?" Twelve human beings stood up.