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HelpPuritan name drop!
Please drop your favourite Puritan names here! Mine are Amity, Verity, Makepeace, Happy, and Silence.
EDIT: seems I forgot lots of my favourites! Adding Clemency, Patience, Hope, Faith, Charity, Felicity, and Constance.
EDIT: seems I forgot lots of my favourites! Adding Clemency, Patience, Hope, Faith, Charity, Felicity, and Constance.
This message was edited 4/18/2023, 6:46 AM
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I have a soft spot for this type of name.
Constant / Constance
Obedience
Promise
Honesty
Modest / Modesty
Prudence
Patience
Freedom
Pleasant
Providence
Rejoice
Truth
Constant / Constance
Obedience
Promise
Honesty
Modest / Modesty
Prudence
Patience
Freedom
Pleasant
Providence
Rejoice
Truth
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Imagine naming your kid Silence.
I have an ancestor whose name was Experience. The big problem with that is the surname was Gaylord. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gaylord-503
I have an ancestor whose name was Experience. The big problem with that is the surname was Gaylord. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gaylord-503
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Haha, I wouldn’t actually use it of course! (Far too talkative for that.) Experience is a cool name, but the surname… 😅
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Memorantia & Tace (TAH-seh)
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Non-classic (I.E. early protestant, mennonite, amish, puritan, and mormon) christian names sometimes have some gems. I like Makepeace (Job 25:2, Isaiah 45:7) and Clemency.
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Mercy is one of my favorites. I also really like Temperance.
I don't know if this counts because I can't find evidence of it being used by Puritans (at least not with a quick search), but Clarity always sounded like a virtue name to me.
I don't know if this counts because I can't find evidence of it being used by Puritans (at least not with a quick search), but Clarity always sounded like a virtue name to me.
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I really don't think the actual Puritans named daughters Happy.
They also didn't use Hope, Faith, and Charity as much as most modern people suppose, partly because they were the names of saints and so used regularly by non-Puritans back in the 17th century. Faith and Hope were as common in Anglican Virginia in colonial times as they were in Puritan Massachusetts.
Mercy was actually the most common virtue name in colonial New England, and it's one of my personal favorites.
Among the few virtue names used for boys were Consider, Welcome, and Cordial, which I rather like.
In the 1850 United States Census, more than 100 women each had the names Comfort, Delight, Peace, Prudence, Reliance, Relief, Silence, Temperance and Wealthy. Very rare virtue names included Lowly, Exercise, Repentance and Trial. Sixty-eight women were named Virtue itself.
I know a woman now in her 50s named Delight. I rather like that one, and think Peace, Reliance, Temperance, and Virtue would also be good names for present day babies. Theoretically I could like Comfort, but unfortunately at present it's sort of ruined by the term "comfort women" for Koreans and others who were forced into being sex slaves for the Japanese military during World War II.
They also didn't use Hope, Faith, and Charity as much as most modern people suppose, partly because they were the names of saints and so used regularly by non-Puritans back in the 17th century. Faith and Hope were as common in Anglican Virginia in colonial times as they were in Puritan Massachusetts.
Mercy was actually the most common virtue name in colonial New England, and it's one of my personal favorites.
Among the few virtue names used for boys were Consider, Welcome, and Cordial, which I rather like.
In the 1850 United States Census, more than 100 women each had the names Comfort, Delight, Peace, Prudence, Reliance, Relief, Silence, Temperance and Wealthy. Very rare virtue names included Lowly, Exercise, Repentance and Trial. Sixty-eight women were named Virtue itself.
I know a woman now in her 50s named Delight. I rather like that one, and think Peace, Reliance, Temperance, and Virtue would also be good names for present day babies. Theoretically I could like Comfort, but unfortunately at present it's sort of ruined by the term "comfort women" for Koreans and others who were forced into being sex slaves for the Japanese military during World War II.
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Oh, I do like Mercy!
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I LOVE (and wish I was brave enough to use) Hopestill and Loveday
I like Steadfast (m), Remember (f), Honesty*, Seaborn (m)
Names I think sound nice: Abstinence (f), Humble (b), Noble (m), Unity (f)
*although it reminds me of the flowers, not the word itself
I like Steadfast (m), Remember (f), Honesty*, Seaborn (m)
Names I think sound nice: Abstinence (f), Humble (b), Noble (m), Unity (f)
*although it reminds me of the flowers, not the word itself
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I like Silence too! You also made me to be intrigued by Makepeace, lol. Long story short, I like Benevolence, Charity, Constance (if that counts), Deliverance, Experience, Faith, Felicity, Hate-evil, Hope, Leafy, Nazareth, Patience, Prudence, Serenity, Temperance, and Unity.
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Rather like Worth, Verity, and Constance.
Hopestill and Waitstill are interesting without being particularly usable. Fear, the name of a preacher's wife in a local church yard, also falls into that category.
The most astounding actual Puritan name I ever discovered was a lady called Fly Fornication Bull. Yikes.
Hopestill and Waitstill are interesting without being particularly usable. Fear, the name of a preacher's wife in a local church yard, also falls into that category.
The most astounding actual Puritan name I ever discovered was a lady called Fly Fornication Bull. Yikes.
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