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

Here are some recorded Puritan names for boys:
Job-raked-out-of-the-ashes
Has-descendents
Wrestling
Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith
Fly-fornication

Also:
Praise-God Barebone. The Barebones were a rich source of crazy names. This one was a leather-worker, member of a particularly odd Puritan group and an MP.
If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned
Fear-God.

Temperance and Chastity would be absolute millstone names.

I'm not a fab of virtue names really. Prudence is very ugly. I suppose Joy is okay because it's not about disavowing something that might bring you pleasure.

*not a fan of

Does Evangeline count? Met an adorable little girl called Evangeline once. Suited her.

@LuluBlakey1
Those names really give a sense of the times people lived in.

But fly fornication?
What’s that?

I had three Aunts (no longer with us) called Faith, Hope and Charity 🥰

I love virtue names! Top of my list are Honor and Patience. Sadly no DDs for me.

I went to school with a girl called Peace, which I thought was fabulous.

I just adore Joy

@CelebrateAndDream

I had three Aunts (no longer with us) called Faith, Hope and Charity 🥰

What is/was your parent's name?

I can’t understand why Cher called her daughter Chastity. That would be enough to screw anyone’s life up.
If you were calledTemperance then you’d be forever the subject of jokes if you had a alcoholic drink.
I think one needs to think very hard before using a virtue name . For instance Iwould be subject toridiculehadI been named Grace or Patience. Verity is pretty but then it’s not a word commonly used now.

@BlueFlavour

But fly fornication? What’s that?

I presume it meant 'flee from filthy fornication!'

My dog is called
Precious

@BlueFlavour

But fly fornication? What’s that?

It's Flee-Fornication

An actual, used, puritan name.

Can you imagine shouting "Flee Fornication! Home time!!" across the playground?

@LuluBlakey1

Also: Praise-God Barebone. The Barebones were a rich source of crazy names. This one was a leather-worker, member of a particularly odd Puritan group and an MP. If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Fear-God.

I'm surprised we don't hear 'If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned' more often, actually. Gorgeous name.

What did they actually call these children though? Surely no parent was saying ‘if-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned! Go and tell flee-fornication that dinner’s ready.’

They must have called them something shorter as a nickname!

@Kanaloa

What did they actually call these children though? Surely no parent was saying ‘if-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned! Go and tell flee-fornication that dinner’s ready.’

They must have called them something shorter as a nickname!

Iffy?

@Flutterflybutterby
That’s made me laugh
Must use my specs more

Actually I had read it right
Phew for that

One of my children has the middle names Grace and Constance (after their two grandmothers).
I love the name Verity.
I’ve taught many Mercys, Precious, Patience and Blessings.

@Kanaloa

What did they actually call these children though? Surely no parent was saying ‘if-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned! Go and tell flee-fornication that dinner’s ready.’

They must have called them something shorter as a nickname!

😂😂😂😂😂

Iffy is a good shout from @thirdelephant.

Iffy and Forny, maybe?

I remember there was a costume drama on maybe in the 90s or early 2000s. There were two sisters in it (I think one played by Julia Sawalha?) They were called Mercy and Charity but were known as Merry and Cherry. I always thought Mercy with nn Merry sounded lovely.

@beastlyslumber without giving too much away...my cousin was called Pauline and my aunts lived in and around Greater Manchester. They were my dad's aunts really, but we also called them 'Aunty' (being 60s children I think that was very common 🤣).