Hi berries! 
I found an article about Puritan names and it was really interesting (and creative!) I know Puritan names have been discussed on here before but I thought it would be fun to make a quiz to find your Puritan naming style!
If you were a Puritan, what would your kids be named? Try the quiz multiple times because there are a lot of hidden gems (+ information about Puritan name meanings and very wacky trends!)
Every name in the quiz was given to a real person!!
Start: Does your style lean more⌠(click on the dropdown for the next option)
âŚclassic?
Which of these is most important in a name, to you?
Wearability
Choose from the following: John, William, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary
These are your only options (sorry not sorry!). A third of all men were John or William and half of all women were Sarah, Elizabeth, or Mary.
In fact, you can name all (16 of) your children John! And grandkids too!
Names you canât pick: Emmanuel (âtoo bold!â â Puritan minister Thomas Adams), Michael or Gabriel (ânot fit for Christian humility!â). Go figure!
Personal significance (honors, etc)
What means the most, to you?
Personal values (virtue names)
Positive values? Mercy, Honor, Faith, Truth, Constance, Hope, Patience, Prudence, Thankful, Accepted
A bit less typical? Silence, Temperance, Experience, Diligence, Obedience, Perseverance, Comfort, Repentance (very popular), Humiliation, Godly
Actually, adding yâs into names is not just a 2020âs fad! Variations like Confydence, Vyctorye, Obedyence are great choices if youâre feeling trendy!
Honoring family
Name all your kids the same name, after your name 
Even if your name is Humiliation Hynde⌠congrats on your new sons Humiliation, Humiliation, and Humiliation! (true story)
To find some potential family names take the quiz again!
Religious/cultural connection
Congrats! Youâre in the supermajority. In 17th century New England, 80+% of children had Biblical names.
The best way to pick a name is to close your eyes, open the Bible, touch a word⌠and thatâs your kidâs name! Youâll find winners like: Agony, Maybe, Notwithstanding, Anger, Wrath, Rejoice, Magnify, Hope-still, Sin-deny, Repent, Returne, Depend, Refrayne, Lament
A story behind the name!
Many parents named their children related to their childbirth experience If that sounds like you, here are some options⌠Free-gift (a surprise baby perhaps?), From-above, Increased, Delivery, Joy-in-sorrow (a difficult birthâŚ), Preserv ed
Already thinking about baby #2 (or #12)? Choose⌠More-fruite, Has-descendents, Increase, Replen ish
On the flip side â tired of kids? Try the lovely Abstine nce
⌠off the beaten path?
Which of these is most important in a name, to you?
A story behind the name!
Often, the best inspiration comes from real life! 
My favorite Puritan name is Preserved Fish , given to a child who was rescued from the wreck of a fishing vessel in New Jersey. I meanâŚ. yeah! Thatâs⌠true I guess!
On a sadder note: if your child is illegitimate (or you just donât like them?), you might find inspiration in names like God-helpe, Weakly, Helpless, Lament, Forsaken, No-merit and the ever-wonderful Fly-Fornic ation
Personal significance (honors, etc)
Honor names are always popular â but if youâre an especially eager honor-namer try honoring your whole family with a choice like Dancell-Dallphebo-Mark-Anthony-Gallery- Cesar
If meaning matters most, donât be afraid to get creative with lovely options like Kill-sin Pimple, Zeal-of-the-land, Muche-Merceye, or Job-rakt-out-of-the- asshes
Some scholars believe that, in their war against idolatry, Puritans allowed themselves indulgences of complete creative excess in naming⌠early namenerds perhaps?
Religious/cultural connection
Congrats! Youâre in the supermajority. In 17th century New England, 80+% of children had Biblical names. But if youâre bored of popular picks like Faith, Fight, or Repentance, you might try making your own! Some winners include: Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith, Sorry-for-sin or the wonderful names of the Barebone family: Praise-God, If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned, Fear-God, Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world -to-save
One trend was to stick the suffix â-on-highâ onto random words, and so here we get Safe-on-high, Help-on-high, Stand-fast-on-high, and Ai d- on-h igh
I just liked it!
Many Puritan names donât stick into categories at all! If youâre an adventurous namer you might enjoy⌠Dust, Fare-well, Continent (paired with last name Walker), Jolly, Wrestling, Famous, Die-well, Fly-debate, Inward, Imagination, Judas-not-Iscariot, Leafy, Zaphn aphpaaneah
Hope youâve enjoyed this! Have you heard of any other names that arenât on here? Just for fun, what combos would you make with these names? (⌠and would you add them to your UC? 
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Sources (lots of interesting reads!)
- The original article, âI Dub Thee âFly-Fornicationâ: Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (1880)â (a book review) â short article with lots of interesting info!
- Extensive Puritan names list on behindthename.com - find more masterpieces!
- Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (the book reviewed in the first article) (pdf), written in 1880⌠an early namenerd?
- A Slate article with lists of the wackiest names!
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