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Puritan style baby names

59 replies

17caterpillars1mouse · 15/10/2017 19:12

DD1 has a name heavily associated with Puritan times. Now expecting DC2 so am looking for suggestions of names that have a puritan vibe to them for both boys and girls.

I quite like Delilah, Constance, Tobias and Gideon maybe

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firawla · 16/10/2017 14:57

Honora?

HairsprayBabe · 16/10/2017 14:50

Perpetua
Charity
Clemency
Felicity
Mercy
Temperance
Verity
Promise
Trinity
Amity

JanuaryJuniper · 16/10/2017 14:40

Aphra (my dd's name )

TatianaLarina · 16/10/2017 10:09

Bathsheba’s a great name.

timeisnotaline · 16/10/2017 02:38

Patience and verity

NikiBabe · 16/10/2017 02:36

Patience is a very ironic name for.a child particularly when they are throwing a tantrum or demanding something right now.

How about Chastity
Not a virtue.

OrlandaFuriosa · 16/10/2017 02:35

Charity
Mercy, I think you'll find it cross the pond, though I too love Clemency
Laetitia/Letitia, sadly not Lettice, if not Felicity
Hepsibah
Bathsheba
Judith
Susanna
Deborah

Clement
Aaron
Abraham
Ezra
Ezekiel
Hosea
Eli
Elisha
Elijah
Abijah
Jacob
Job
Joel
Joshua
Asher
Nathan
Nathanial
Benjamin

bigbluedustbin · 16/10/2017 02:14

Temperance. I’ve always loved that name.

mathanxiety · 16/10/2017 01:38

Keziah
Hephzibah
Beulah
Dinah
Mariah
Mehitabel
Philomene
Tamsin

Justice
Ezekiel
Shadrach
Denzel
Josias
Loyal
Theophilus
Giles
Jeremiah

EssentialHummus · 16/10/2017 01:03

Hope is lovely.

PeasAndHarmony · 16/10/2017 00:55

Love Hope, Honor and Constance!

Sophronia · 16/10/2017 00:52

I actually know of siblings Patience, Hope, Faith and Grace

WaxOnFeckOff · 15/10/2017 22:59

Edmund
Edgar
Benedict

Mercy
Sarah
Amity

MyOtherProfile · 15/10/2017 22:42

I don't think Delilah is a very Puritan name
I'd have thought the opposite in fact Grin

eddiemairswife · 15/10/2017 22:13

I don't think Delilah is a very Puritan name.

Coloursthatweremyjoy · 15/10/2017 22:09

I love Elijah! My DH wanted Ezekial but we went for something simpler. I'm glad as it suits him but I have since met a toddler Ezekial and it doesent seem otto at all.

Constance / Connie...just lovely.

Solasum · 15/10/2017 22:06

Loveday

Smoliver · 15/10/2017 22:04

I like the names you've come up with so far.

Girls:
Verity
Felicity
Eva
Hannah
Joanna
Leah
Lydia
Celeste
Victoria
Angela

Boys:
Bodhi
Ezekiel
Benjamin
Josiah
Caleb
Levi
Nathaniel

bridgetreilly · 15/10/2017 20:29

Hosanna
Amity
Clemency
Faith
Honor
Felicity

Jeremiah
Obadiah
Jonah
Jonas
Abraham
Oceanus
Oliver

TatianaLarina · 15/10/2017 20:16

Gabriel, Elijah, Jude, Job

Grace, Honor, Carys, Tabitha, Thomasina

I like Constance/Connie.

MikeUniformMike · 15/10/2017 20:03

Constance

PhuntSox · 15/10/2017 20:02

Verity!

EllenLydia · 15/10/2017 20:01

Mercy

ThaliaLuxurySpa · 15/10/2017 19:44

Liberty

(Best avoid "Batcock", the Puritan diminutive of Bartholomew...I kid you not). Shock

Petalflowers · 15/10/2017 19:42

Joy
Grace
Temperance
Esther
Naomi

Simeon
Luke
Caleb
David