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HelpFantastic book chronicling hilarious Puritan names
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/curiosities-of-puritan-nomenclature-1888/
Came across this when searching for word name ideas for a story. Found quite a few gems haha
Here's a few (I tried to 'organize' them lol):
Increase
Brownjohn
Crestolot
Fearing
Gillotyne
Handmaid
Ithamaria - kinda like this one
Jehoiada
Wealthy
Amalasiontha
Diffidence
Badcock
Fannasibilla
Elnathan - kinda like this too
Continent
Abericusgentylis
Helpless
Jockaminshaw
Lamentations
Lemon
Living
Micklejohn
Mycock
Northhamtonia
Nothing
Original
Obey
Peacock
Philadelphia
Posthumus
Posthuma (lol the female form of Posthumus apparently!)
Properjohn
Rediviva
Refrayne
Renovata
Replenish
Revelation
Revolt
Salt
Shorter
Sirs
Sis
Sou'wester
Subpena
Sudden
Talkative
Trial
Unfeigned
Wat
Weakly
Wrath
Wrestling
Zebulon
Zerrubabel
Parish Church
Love Venus
Renold Falcon
Young Allen & Young John
Rum John Pritchard
Zaphnaphpaaneah Isaiah Obededom Nicodemus Francis Edward
Thomas Hill Joseph Napoleon Horatio Bonaparte Swindlehurst Nelson
Talitha-Cumi
My-sake
Abuse-not
Sea-mercy
Heavenly-mind
Church-reform
Sin-denie
Love-lust
More-fruite
Zeal-of-the-land
Quod-vult-Deus
Hold-the-world
Sorry-for-sin
Search-the-Scriptures
Flie-fornication (flee fornication??)
Judas-not-Iscariot
Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith
Job-rakt-out-of-the-asshes (first read this as Job-ran-out-of-asses lol)
If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned
Dancell-Dallphebo-Marke-Antony-Dallery-Gallery-Cesar (not even kidding!)
My PNL = http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/37275
Top: Henry & Lara (main) / Caspian & Briar (GP) / Leon & Georgiana (top25)
Bottom: Trajan & Jacoba (main) / Dinadan & Melpomene (GP) / Corvo & Ourania (top25)
Came across this when searching for word name ideas for a story. Found quite a few gems haha
Here's a few (I tried to 'organize' them lol):
Increase
Brownjohn
Crestolot
Fearing
Gillotyne
Handmaid
Ithamaria - kinda like this one
Jehoiada
Wealthy
Amalasiontha
Diffidence
Badcock
Fannasibilla
Elnathan - kinda like this too
Continent
Abericusgentylis
Helpless
Jockaminshaw
Lamentations
Lemon
Living
Micklejohn
Mycock
Northhamtonia
Nothing
Original
Obey
Peacock
Philadelphia
Posthumus
Posthuma (lol the female form of Posthumus apparently!)
Properjohn
Rediviva
Refrayne
Renovata
Replenish
Revelation
Revolt
Salt
Shorter
Sirs
Sis
Sou'wester
Subpena
Sudden
Talkative
Trial
Unfeigned
Wat
Weakly
Wrath
Wrestling
Zebulon
Zerrubabel
Parish Church
Love Venus
Renold Falcon
Young Allen & Young John
Rum John Pritchard
Zaphnaphpaaneah Isaiah Obededom Nicodemus Francis Edward
Thomas Hill Joseph Napoleon Horatio Bonaparte Swindlehurst Nelson
Talitha-Cumi
My-sake
Abuse-not
Sea-mercy
Heavenly-mind
Church-reform
Sin-denie
Love-lust
More-fruite
Zeal-of-the-land
Quod-vult-Deus
Hold-the-world
Sorry-for-sin
Search-the-Scriptures
Flie-fornication (flee fornication??)
Judas-not-Iscariot
Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith
Job-rakt-out-of-the-asshes (first read this as Job-ran-out-of-asses lol)
If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned
Dancell-Dallphebo-Marke-Antony-Dallery-Gallery-Cesar (not even kidding!)
Top: Henry & Lara (main) / Caspian & Briar (GP) / Leon & Georgiana (top25)
Bottom: Trajan & Jacoba (main) / Dinadan & Melpomene (GP) / Corvo & Ourania (top25)
This message was edited 4/17/2014, 3:33 PM
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BEST. THING. I. HAVE. READ. ALL. YEAR. period. thank you! -
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*Giggle, giggle* Badcock...
Judas-not-Iscariot is good, too. Thanks for posting these!
Rediviva isn't so bad, actually. The famous university library of my hometown, Uppsala, is called Carolina Rediviva.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Rediviva
Judas-not-Iscariot is good, too. Thanks for posting these!
Rediviva isn't so bad, actually. The famous university library of my hometown, Uppsala, is called Carolina Rediviva.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Rediviva
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LOL, great collection. Struggling with the temptation to check some of them for legitimacy :)
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The ones I checked seem to be authentic! The book is old but the author referenced puritan volumes and church records. The few pages I checked gave full names and dates of birth and locations and such, so I've reason to believe them :)
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Ooh thank you - these are wondrous!
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The only one that is not unfamiliar to me is Increase because of Increase Mather.
If I HAD to give my kid one of these names, I'd go with Diffidence. It has a pretty sound. No, forget that, I'd pick If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned. No, never mind, because I don't like any of the nicknames for that, and don't you think that If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned really needs a nickname? Are nicknames inevitable? I think they are. So Diffidence it is.
Judas-not-Iscariot. Glad you cleared that up.
Sorry-for-sin. Speak for yourself.
Nothing. Start scheduling this kid's psychiatrist appointments now.
Gillotyne. Well, they couldn't have known that some day the guillotine would be invented.
Wat. Exactly. Although this was a nickname for Walter in The Middle Ages.
Talkative sounds like one of the Seven Dwarfs.
Badcock and Mycock. Gotta go with the latter.
If I HAD to give my kid one of these names, I'd go with Diffidence. It has a pretty sound. No, forget that, I'd pick If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned. No, never mind, because I don't like any of the nicknames for that, and don't you think that If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned really needs a nickname? Are nicknames inevitable? I think they are. So Diffidence it is.
Judas-not-Iscariot. Glad you cleared that up.
Sorry-for-sin. Speak for yourself.
Nothing. Start scheduling this kid's psychiatrist appointments now.
Gillotyne. Well, they couldn't have known that some day the guillotine would be invented.
Wat. Exactly. Although this was a nickname for Walter in The Middle Ages.
Talkative sounds like one of the Seven Dwarfs.
Badcock and Mycock. Gotta go with the latter.
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A History lecturer once assured our class that If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned existed; his ln was Barebone and his nn was Damned! I can't prove it, but I choose to believe it.
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What an awesome find! Will have to take a better look at it tomorrow.
I actually kind of like
Elnathan
Refrayne
Hold-the-world
The following elicited laughs
Posthuma
Properjohn- as opposed to improperjohn
Subpena
Zaphnaphpaaneah Isaiah Obededom Nicodemus Francis Edward- hos on Earth does one say the first name here zaf-na-pay-a-nee-a?
Thomas Hill Joseph Napoleon Horatio Bonaparte Swindlehurst Nelson- Swindlehurst is awesome. Also Napolean and Nelson in one name. lol
Church-reform
Judas-not-Iscariot -the best of the lot
Dancell-Dallphebo-Marke-Antony-Dallery-Gallery-Cesar - HA dallery gallery.
I actually kind of like
Elnathan
Refrayne
Hold-the-world
The following elicited laughs
Posthuma
Properjohn- as opposed to improperjohn
Subpena
Zaphnaphpaaneah Isaiah Obededom Nicodemus Francis Edward- hos on Earth does one say the first name here zaf-na-pay-a-nee-a?
Thomas Hill Joseph Napoleon Horatio Bonaparte Swindlehurst Nelson- Swindlehurst is awesome. Also Napolean and Nelson in one name. lol
Church-reform
Judas-not-Iscariot -the best of the lot
Dancell-Dallphebo-Marke-Antony-Dallery-Gallery-Cesar - HA dallery gallery.
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I think My-sake and Sea-mercy are achingly beautiful! As for the relatively more usable names, I'm fond of Ithamaria, Amalasiontha, Diffidence, Elnathan, Philadelphia, Renovata, Unfeigned, Wrestling (this is what Naphtali means), and Zebulon.
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Ohhhh, Handmaid and Nothing have got to be the cruelest ones.
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Didn't 'nothing' used to mean 'female'? I'm sure I read that in relation to Shakespeare's "Much ado about nothing".
Something about it meaning women have 'no thing' whereas men have a 'thing'
Something about it meaning women have 'no thing' whereas men have a 'thing'
This message was edited 4/19/2014, 12:19 AM
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There were a lot of interesting ones (that I obviously didn't list because they weren't so unusual) that weren't that bad. If you skip to the index at the back of the book, it lists all the names mentioned :)
I know, right?! I just about died laughing at that one!
I know, right?! I just about died laughing at that one!
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