If you named your DC after a concept (Faith, Charity etc)

[Dollywilde]

...did you do it because you like the sentiment or just because you liked the name?

Really just a curiosity post sparked by someone saying on Twitter today that Liz Truss named her daughter Liberty because she’s such an ardent believer in freedom and democracy...

I know someone with a name that suggests a political perspective her parents are fully against (think pro Irish independence) but they really loved it so went for it anyway! Was wondering how much commitment went into concept based names

My b/g twins both have virtue names. We chose them because we liked the name, and with the boy it was a family name, rather than the virtue. They are not something like Grace though which, as said above, could be unfortunate if you weren't.

I read an old local newspaper article where the Vicar wrote in about a child he’d baptised called Repentance

I met a Temperence once. She was v posh. Not in to fashion.

Repentence is godawful. Smite the vicar!

@janus good call. I think joy is lighter in those circs.

I know a Joy who is miserable as sin and a Grace who is clumpy and ungainly.

I think names like that are very hard to live up to!

I don’t really like the concept of virtue name. Why slap this kind of burden on a child ? I know most if not all names have some kind of meaning but not quite so obvious (how many people actually know that George means "farmer," and Alexander means "protector of man"?)

If I ever named a child one of these names it would have to be solely because I really like the sound, and even then...

I was very tempted by Grace, because of the meaning (in the religious sense of an undeserved gift/kindness), but put off largely by how popular it is and the suspicion that most people here/now think of grace in terms of elegance (as I think comments on this thread show!).

I love Comfort and Gifty.

I don’t think they put an expectation or a demand on the child - to me, that’s not the right way of looking at them. Sometimes they say something about how the parent feels about the child in the abstract (“this child is a gift/ having this child restored my hope” etc), sometimes they say something about who the parent hopes that child will be, but tbh that’s equally true when people start considering ‘how will my child fit in amongst their peers?’ ‘what will this name mean on their CV?’.

I also really like the Zimbabwean suffix -more - Trymore, Lovemore etc.