Puritan style names/virtue names

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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

@beastlyslumber extra info...one of them used her middle name Joan, as she didn't like her given name 🤣

Love Temperance, Patience, Verity, Grace, Hope, Joy, Constance

Felicity.
Love Pax for a boy or girl.

@CelebrateAndDream

*@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 🤣).

Ah, I just wondered if there was another virtue name in the family! And yes - growing up in the 70s, all our parents' friends/random women were Aunty!!

Can't hear the name Felicity without thinking of The Young Ones...

Felicity, Felicity,
You fill me with electricity!

We nearly used Clemency for DD but in the end chose not as I don’t like Clemmie.

I had an ancestor called Mercy Elsden and I thought it was lovely

Oh my goodness, Mercy is dreadful. Makes me think of the awful Mercy Dulbottle in the Jill's Gymkhana books (especially the first time she is introduced-Jill hears Mercy's aunt calling for her in another part of the house"Mercy, Mercy!" and thinks the poor woman is being attacked or something).

Honor is lovely.

I haven’t thought about Mercy Dulbottle for years!

I love Constance and Temperance, in my mind they are sisters in the1940s and they solve murder mysteries

I never understand why Verity gets such love on Mumsnet, it always sounds like Ferrety to me.

I've always loved the names Honor, Grace and Constance. I remember when Grace was as rare a name as Constance actually and I never understood then why more people didn't use it. Fast forward a few years and it was everywhere. Still a beautiful name though.

Temperance and Prudence, on the other hand, are really ugly have with dull, joyless connotations. Not keen on Patience or Mercy either.

The Puritans were a miserable lot. Fancy living a life with that outlook, what a waste.

@beastlyslumber ah ok 🤣 I thought that you might have the same relatives and were wondering if we were related 😁

My grandma (the sister of F, H and C) was Elizabeth...she was the youngest of the three girls, so lucked out I think in the Puritan Name Stakes 🥰

Felicity Clemency and Verity

Ah @CelebrateAndDream I'd love to find a long lost relative on MN! But I would be very sorry for you finding out you're part of my family

Victoria - has much more oomph about it than most slightly passive female virtue names.

@beastlyslumber

Ah *@CelebrateAndDream* I'd love to find a long lost relative on MN! But I would be very sorry for you finding out you're part of my family

😂 families are fun aren't they! 🤣

I love Liberty, although it may work better as a middle name I think the same about Hope and Joy. Also fond of Constance, Felicity and Comfort.

Constance is my fave :)

I love the sound of Virginia and I've a soft spot for Temperance.

However, neither is a "virtue" I can get behind. So shall need to keep them for lizards or some other pet that doesn't go outside. Thus avoiding the need to stand in the garden ostensibly shouting about abstinence.