Puritan style names/virtue names

[Flutterflybutterby]

Some of them are awful and some of them gorgeous and underused.

I love Faith, Joy, Honor, Mercy (which I saw posted about on here recently - which went down very badly) and Hope.

What's your favorite virtue name? (Of all of them, not just the ones I like!)

Assuming you like any, of course

Another vote here for Temperance, it's a beautiful name.

Blaze is a saints name (patron of suffering and wool combers)

That’s interesting! Wool-combing is quite a niche occupation to have its own saint!

I love love love Mercy but exdp wasn't having any of it for DD so I called her Sunday instead. Also like
Sage
Temperance
Patience

@RandomCatGenerator

I love Capability, like Capability Brown the Victorian landscaper. I can’t imagine actually calling a little boy (or little girl) it but it’s so confident!

I know a Temperance - little Tempy, which is very sweet on her but an odd name for the meaning.

I know a Nigerian woman called Precious, which is wonderful. Her sister has a really normal name like Stephanie or something, which I would be offended about if my sister then got ‘Precious’…

Capability is great!

The problem with virtue names is that they must be very hard to live up to. I would be a terrible Capability, Temperance or Chastity.

@AuntDympna

How is Blaze a virtue? For a girl I quite like: Insubordinata Valour Grit Sagacity Justine Meditation

Insubordinata is fab if only I could have another DD

Serendipity.

I'd be afraid if I named my child Honor, Joy or Mercy that they'd turn out to be the school bully and I'd be left with egg on my face!

I think Chastity should be banned as a name for girls from now on, given the amount of patriarchial baggage it comes with. Definitely not a virtue I'd be particularly interested in nurturing in a girl child. Self-belief and strong personal boundaries will do nicely instead.

TabithaTiger
What independent sources does any site give to back up their claim? Normally, one would expect at least two.
Alas - because it's so unfair to parents - many babyname websites are found to be inaccurate, to some degree or another.
For accuracy look here www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198610601.001.0001/acref-9780198610601
or for most of the time here www.behindthename.com/
Even Wikipedia is a useful check.
There are also specialist sites for Irish/Scottish/Welsh etc. But really, it troubles me to think that anyone can start up a baby name website with - it seems - little or no background knowledge.

Capability Brown was a nickname. His given name was Lancelot (which is pretty splendid!)

I like Grace and Hope

I doubt Blaze means anything that Wikipedia or any babyname site says. Those are all retrospective explanations. Blaze is funny, it's rare and none of the explanations are at all satisfactory.
It might be related to please, in Proto Indo European *plā-k- (“wide and flat”) and thus in fact to placate and so to peace.
I am guessing but at least that's a nice guess.

Aunt Dymphna - your *pla-k' might just be relevant, butwe have nearer info to hand:

It could also mean a bright/light distinguishing mark, eg a white nose on a horse, or light marks made to waymark a trail.
www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/blaze_1

Another version ‘a bright flame' and the one referring to a white streak on a horse’s face (from 17th])are probably related, through the idea of shining or brightness.[[ In America the second came to apply to a white mark chipped in a tree to indicate a path or boundary slightly later in the mid 17th century[[

Self-Belief-and-Strong-Boundaries Smith. The 21st century Puritan!

@KrispyKale

Self-Belief-and-Strong-Boundaries Smith. The 21st century Puritan!

😂

Think I might rename my kids in this fashion. My eldest can be ‘tidy-thy-room-it-is-a-pigsty.’

How about twins Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments and Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets?

Clemency
Ruth

@KrispyKale. Self-Belief-and-Strong-Boundaries Smith. The 21st century Puritan!

I suppose I asked for that ! How about Shout-Out and Empower for modern virtue names?

Empower Smith has a nice ring.

It has a touch of the Endeavour Morse!

Felicity, Clemency, Faith are beautiful names.

Be-Kind

I think I actually like some if these. (Not Be-Kind! Another one of those burdensome names.)

I really love Comfort. My son is in yr1 and one of his TA's is called Comfort and the way he says he name makes me melt!

I love a virtue name.

Patience is my favourite name ever (may be slightly biased haha)

I also love
Prudence
Constance
Clemency
Charity
Hope
Faith
Temperance

Faith and verity

Verity. It's just wonderful.

I like names like Precious and Blessing too.