Virtue Names

[garnet]

Patience - I'm neutral to this one, but I think I actually kind of like it.
Felicity - lovely! definitely one of the ones I would use.
Mercy - no thanks
Charity - not my style (thought charity is great)
Clarity - I secretly like this one a lot, it just flows very nicely
Serenity - no thanks
Sincerity - feels the least like a name
Truth - not a fan


Just wanted to add:

Faith - Faith is great
Hope - love Hope, so underappreciated
Prudence - love the nickname Prue
Verity - LOVE Verity, if only for the nickname Vera
Comfort
Constance
Clemence
I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting...

[natural]

Not a fan of virtue names. Even more so after my mom told me if she knew she was going to have three girls she would have named us: Faith, Hope, & Charity. I would have been Charity.

Someone my niece knows named her triplet girls Faith, Faithful, & Faithfully. Cannot remember if she said it was in their native dialect or the English version. Either way, bleh! For what little respect I may have had for the name was lost.

[*peach*]

I don't mind...
Prudence
Temperance
Glory
Honour

Valour is my favourite of all the virtue names I love it for a boy.

[blairx]

Do adjectives count as virtue names? I like Blythe, for example.

Otherwise, English virtue names are a hard sell for me. They wear their meanings on their sleeves, so if you're not gung ho about the meaning it's easy to dismiss them. And I usually prefer the "namier" version, if there is one.

Honor, Glory and Liberty are the only ones I can get behind. Felicity is nice too, though (I always think of Felicity Merriman of American Girl). I guess I could get behind Victory if Victor and Victoria weren't names.

I quite like the nickname Pru! But Prudence itself is all Puritan to me and also reminds me of prunes and a book about a little girl named Prudence who learns to use the "potty." Temperance is too...prohibitionist, and reminds me of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. I find it too loaded with a non-forward-thinking image, unfortunately.

[eabp86]

If I were doing a virtue name, I would pick Verity. It literally translates from the Latin veritas as "true." I always like when I can find what a name means in Latin. It makes it seem more legit (plus it allows me to finally put those 4 years of Latin to use). But "true" is a lovely meaning to bestow on a person. And Verity sounds lovely without being popular at all.