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HelpCould Revival work as a name?
I love the word, but could it work as a virtue name? I like the meaning of spiritual awakening. Can you see it as a name?
Please to not mock Christians
Please to not mock Christians
This message was edited 5/22/2025, 1:31 PM
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As a Puritan name? Sure, along with Rediviva and Renovata. Nowadays? Not at all, it's over-the-top.
I am not a fan of virtue names in general, and this one is not to my taste. Actually I do like Charity, which sounds pretty.
(I am Christian, by the way.)
(I am Christian, by the way.)
I'd prefer Epiphany, Vitalia, René...but sure, whatever.
Revival (as a concept not the sound particularly) reminds me of resuscitation, so my first thought is if it was chosen because the baby stopped breathing for a bit. Or maybe instead it's the parents who feel like they're suffocating and their little Revival has enlivened them and given them perspective. It's just a word and sounds somewhat like Reva / Riva and Percival. I think I'd prefer it to Zeal which gets used.
Revival (as a concept not the sound particularly) reminds me of resuscitation, so my first thought is if it was chosen because the baby stopped breathing for a bit. Or maybe instead it's the parents who feel like they're suffocating and their little Revival has enlivened them and given them perspective. It's just a word and sounds somewhat like Reva / Riva and Percival. I think I'd prefer it to Zeal which gets used.
This message was edited 5/23/2025, 9:19 AM
I’m a Christian but I don’t see Revival working as a given name. It’s too much of a “ word.” It would be the same as naming a child Bible or Church.
Church and Bible actually have precedence as names, though (along with related words like Temple, Kirk, Psalm, Genesis). All I find when I look up Revival is business names.
This message was edited 5/23/2025, 10:06 AM
It's too much of a vocabulary word in my mind to be used as a person's proper name. However, if I think of Revival as kind of a parallel or spin-off of Feivel, I can allllmost hear it as a name...but the parents are definitely hippies or self-described "nonconformists".
Absolutely not.
I'm a devout, practicing Christian. I'm alright with a lot of virtue names. This one is dreadful.
I'm a devout, practicing Christian. I'm alright with a lot of virtue names. This one is dreadful.
In theory it could, and Jubilee has and that's similar in feel if not meaning.
But it just doesn't work. Probably never did; back in Puritan times when all kinds of virtue names were the thing, there was no such thing as revival meetings.
And it just never got off the ground. And now it kind of also sounds like something you use on yoru hair or your houseplants to try and perk them up.
PS: There is no need to order people to "not mock Christians" or anything else. We know not to do that, and the ones that don't know wouldn't listen anyway.
But it just doesn't work. Probably never did; back in Puritan times when all kinds of virtue names were the thing, there was no such thing as revival meetings.
And it just never got off the ground. And now it kind of also sounds like something you use on yoru hair or your houseplants to try and perk them up.
PS: There is no need to order people to "not mock Christians" or anything else. We know not to do that, and the ones that don't know wouldn't listen anyway.
Wishfish takes anything disparaging or disagreeing with their world view as being mocking, probably because they're young and from a homogeneous population of people just like them, and they haven't been forced to deal with people with different world views than them too much.
People here are allowed to not like a thing, and there've been great conversations had here between rival viewpoints, so long as things are civil. I don't like critical discourse being automatically labeled as 'mocking' when it's not, especially in the case of your comment Roxstar, where you said nothing wrong.
Anyway, I enjoy the name Jubilee, but that's because she's my favorite mutant in the X-Men lineup. Next to X-23 that is. Revival sounds like another mutant name to me, maybe a mutant who can spark life or energy into people, like a living AED lol
People here are allowed to not like a thing, and there've been great conversations had here between rival viewpoints, so long as things are civil. I don't like critical discourse being automatically labeled as 'mocking' when it's not, especially in the case of your comment Roxstar, where you said nothing wrong.
Anyway, I enjoy the name Jubilee, but that's because she's my favorite mutant in the X-Men lineup. Next to X-23 that is. Revival sounds like another mutant name to me, maybe a mutant who can spark life or energy into people, like a living AED lol
I mean generalizing that all Christians are white redneck trump supporting doofs. That is not Christians at all.
Nobody here has done that and I doubt they were planning to do so. I don't know anyone in real life who has such an opinion of Christians. Stop telling people what you think they will do.
Who here mocked christians?
nobody ...
The poster is hypersensitive and insecure so tries to prevent his narrow little world from being jiggled by contrary opinions.
The poster is hypersensitive and insecure so tries to prevent his narrow little world from being jiggled by contrary opinions.
This is the type of post that arguably violates the board rules (rule #3).
It's possible to criticize what another user posts, without being needlessly offensive. Please try to keep the rule in mind.
It's possible to criticize what another user posts, without being needlessly offensive. Please try to keep the rule in mind.
The poster also posts under different names and lately I feel that a good portion of new topics are started by this one person. So annoying since most are about one of their random opinions and how incredulous they are that there are people who disagree with them.
No one
I could see it being used, because virtue names are becoming more popular, but I personally don’t like it.
Revival Jones
Revival Kowalski
Revival Brown
Revival MacIntyre
I don't know, it feels pretty awkward as a name in practice. It sounds like a sort of nickname moniker, like Samuel "Revival" Thompson. It sounds like a character name, and could work for a certain kind of character, for sure. I don't think it would be easy to bear in real life.
Revival Kowalski
Revival Brown
Revival MacIntyre
I don't know, it feels pretty awkward as a name in practice. It sounds like a sort of nickname moniker, like Samuel "Revival" Thompson. It sounds like a character name, and could work for a certain kind of character, for sure. I don't think it would be easy to bear in real life.
I suppose worse things have happened, but I wouldn't like to see it as a name. I would wonder how the parents might react if young Revival became an atheist, a Catholic, a Muslim ...
Nothing about it says “name” to me. No.
For Evangelicals, sure.
For anyone else? No.
For anyone else? No.
I'd say it depends on where the child grows up. It could work in the Bible Belt? It's a good word. As a name, though... it makes a strong statement. It's a question of how that statement will be received by those around them.
Maybe?
My name kind of means "revival"
My name kind of means "revival"