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[moldycelery.livejournal.com]

In the spirit of Thanksgiving (apologies to any offended non-Americans), here's a list of various Pilgrim/Puritan names I've found in books, random websites, etc.:


Girls
Prudence
Remember
Humility
Mercy
Faith
Honour
Temperance
Constance

Boys
Cotton
Josiah
Tobias
Lamentation
Praise-God
Wrestling
Bartholomew
Resolved

Thoughts?

Comments

[joonluv.livejournal.com]

Some of those I've never heard of them being used as names. From the girls, I really like Faith, and from the boys, Josiah and Tobias.

Cotton reminds me of Hank's father from "King of the Hill"

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

The girls really got the short end of the stick on this one I think!

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I like Josiah, Tobias, and Faith.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

The only ones I would ever use (if I were forced to pick from this list) are Faith, Mercy, Josiah, and Tobias.

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

LOVE tobias

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I am offended by your celebration of thanks! We already had our Thanksgiving here. We're way ahead of you. :P

I like Mercy and Constance, and Resolved is kind of cool. Not that I'd actually like it on a kid.

[cherrysorbet.livejournal.com]

I like Constance and Tobias.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Despite being religiously challenged, I like puritian names, too. Honour (perfer Annora and Mercy (as a nn) are pretty cool. Two of my personal all time favorites are Verity (in my top 5) and Providence.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Nah I'm not offended, as your post is relevant to Thanksgiving and all.

Anyway I've always had a thing for Puritan names, probably wouldn't use them, but still.

So, I like ...
Prudence
Faith
Honour
Temperance

Cotton
Josiah
Tobias

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

Don't like any of the girls names, especially Prudence. Of the boys names, Tobias and Bartholomew are cool, but in a way that I wouldn't ever use them though.