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By tempestinateapot · Updated May 2023
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Virtue name
It may have been used by the Puritans, but any modern child would chafe under this name.
Word name
An admirable quality to impart; Pleasant was used by Charles Dickens in Our Mutual Friend and in modern times is known via American Girl dolls creator Pleasant Rowland.
Greek
"practical"
Praxis makes perfect? Though this mythological name sounds boyish, it's a female name, an equivalent for Aphrodite.
Sounds pretty. But pretentious.
Literary and word name
Remarkable Pettibone was a self-important housekeeper in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers . Such names were not uncommon in early America, with such choices as Remember and Experience showing up…
No one will ever forget it. But Remember as a name came over on the Mayflower, so it has deep history as well as modern potential.
The Puritans used it as a virtue name -- but today it would just be considered weird: silence is no longer golden.
Sound contradicts its meaning.
English word name
"conscious of benefit received"
In the Plymouth Colony of the seventeenth century, Thankful was the third most popular of the abstract word names. It disappeared after 1700 and has virtually no chance of returning.
Warm and open, but way too much teasing potential.
If Fable, Story and Saga are getting a look in, why not Allegory? Allegory offers the cute nickname Ally.
English word name from the Greek Euphonia
"well sounding"
With the rising use of Eugenie and Eulalia, could literary Euphony make a debut? It certainly has a pleasant meaning and is euphonic itself.
Nature name, English word name
"a quiescent insect pupa, of a butterfly or moth"
Chrysalis is a girls' baby name derived from the state of a butterfly or moth between larva and adult. A chrysalis is a hard-shelled pupa in which the transition of the butterfly or moth takes place.…
