"I have a special place in my heart for virtue names," says Caitlin [a scholar of colonial America]. "We often think of Faith, Hope, Joy, Grace, etc., as feminine names, but in colonial New England it was just as common to bestow virtue names on boys: Waitstill, Fearnot, Comfort, Increase, Rich-Grace, Vigilant, Experience, Return, etc. I love both the boldness of the names and the fact that parents were as creative with boys' names as with girls'."
(from here)
Tehehe name-generator-ing.
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