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Sister for Charity?

44 replies

GraciePig123 · 04/08/2025 21:21

Hey fellow mumsnetters! I’ve got DD Charity and second on the way, due end of August. 2nd is another girl and DH and I love Honor? Love to hear your thoughts! Surname Littlejohn.

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Firebird83 · 12/08/2025 21:34

Mercy
Blythe
Patience
Loveday
Gloria
Clemency
Journey
Remedy
Honora

WaterGarden · 12/08/2025 10:50

I had a headmistress whose first name was Charity. I like it. Hope or Faith are nice too

fairycupcakes · 11/08/2025 21:11

Honor is lovely but with your surname I’m not quite sure - Honora Littlejohn could work though!

How about:

Charity & Constance
Charity & Temperance
Charity & Harmony
Charity & Serenity (probably my favourite if we’re looking at sibsets)

TwoWheelz · 11/08/2025 20:53

Honour or faith or hope

Ashley911 · 11/08/2025 20:47

Constance

itsgettingweird · 11/08/2025 20:46

I like no or but agree it doesn’t work with your surname as well as other

Also like Verity and felicity but not with charity as sound too alike.

Freya Joy or Freya Hope

Florence

IsItWickedNotToCare · 11/08/2025 20:22

Chastity obvs

VividGreen · 11/08/2025 20:21

Honor little John? Maybe choose something else

LikeABat · 11/08/2025 19:56

@RogueFemale Your post made me think of Honesty which is a plant name. Honor is American spelling of the word so would frequently be misspelled.

ILoveWhales · 11/08/2025 19:44

Faith Hope or Grace

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 11/08/2025 18:36

Patience is a beautiful virtue name, as is Constance.

Words · 11/08/2025 17:30

Prudence

Philandbill · 11/08/2025 17:19

Damaris
Hester
Verity

Which all have a similar puritan vibe without being too matchy.

Helloanne1234 · 11/08/2025 17:16

What about Temperance? I think that’s the name of the main character in Bones.

Helloanne1234 · 11/08/2025 17:15

I love Honor. I also like Hero, which has the same sort of feeling.

Grapewrath · 11/08/2025 17:14

Hope, Mercy, justice, Patience, Honor, Truly, Constance and Everley are all beautiful

CluelessAboutBiology · 10/08/2025 23:57

Verity

mathanxiety · 10/08/2025 23:44

Honor is lovely and really nice as s sister to Charity.

mathanxiety · 10/08/2025 23:42

Bethany
Constance
Sophia (means Wisdom)
Serena
Theodora (gift of God)
Faye
Letitia/ Laetitia (joy/ gladness)

RogueFemale · 10/08/2025 23:26

@GraciePig123 Chastity immediately sprang to mind. Honestly I think it'd be perfect, I love unusual girl names.

Consider also Venetia and Sibylla.

miniaturepixieonacid · 08/08/2025 01:30

I quite like Honor but think it's perhaps a bit much as a pair wih Charity (although they will only be seen as a pair when they are children so it probably doesn't matter that much). Also, Honor Littlejohn sounds like a command sentence - 'honour little John'.

I'v never beeen sure if Honor counts as a virtue name or not because of the spelling or whether it has a different origin. But, even if it's not, it sounds so much like one that I'd avoid it. Whereas Felicity and Verity, despite being undoubtedly virtue names, seem better fits for Charity just because we don't tend to use those two names as abstract nouns in everyday conversation so they remain as purely names not both names and virtues.

Names that I think go with Charity without being themed/matchy:
Anne, Alice, Anastasia, Bronte, Daphne, Diana, Evangeline, Edith, Florence, Frances, Giselle, Gloria, Harriet, Iris, Josephine, Juliet, Jemima, Katherine, Kate, Lillian, Lucia, Larissa, Lydia, Martha, Marina, Nadine, Nadia, Pearl, Ruth, Rosemary, Sylvia, Stella, Theresa, Tamara, Ursula, Vivianne, Violet, Yolanda

Londonmummy66 · 07/08/2025 22:52

Constanza/Constance/Constancy or Fidelia

timoteigirl · 07/08/2025 22:26

I love Liberty but with sisters named Charity and Liberty (or Grace or Verity etc.) I would think of Quakers or Quaker ancestry.

Mercy
Liv
Martha
Lorna
Johanna
Kristina

Rachie1973 · 07/08/2025 22:00

girljulian · 04/08/2025 21:31

I like it! Also a fan of Felicity, Hope, Faith.

lol I have granddaughters named Faith, Hope, Felicity and Verity.

user1492757084 · 06/08/2025 10:18

Yes some are too similar to Charity.
My faves ..
Honor
Prudence
Clemency
Mercy
Claire
Annunciata

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