Comments on: Name of the Day: Faith

By: Baby Name of the Day: Sonnet | Appellation Mountain

Baby Name of the Day: Sonnet | Appellation Mountain — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:02:57 +0000

[...] style in the 1970s. 2010′s Top 100 includes Lily, Grace, Jasmine, Destiny, Brooke, Trinity, Faith, Autumn, Serenity, and Genesis. From the traditional to the nouveau, word names have always had a [...]

By: Baby Name of the Day: Sophia | Appellation Mountain

Baby Name of the Day: Sophia | Appellation Mountain — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:03:42 +0000

[...] century. Her story goes like this: an early Christian convert, Sophia raised three daughters: Faith, Hope, and Charity, their names inspired by St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians. During [...]

By: photoquilty

photoquilty — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:31:59 +0000

Considering my atheism, Faith is not a name for my kids. I don’t particularly like it on others, either. Most virtue names annoy me – you can’t make a personality happen. I find it similar to naming your child Lawyer or Princess. It’s not my style, I guess. For the record, I am so sick of seeing Hope and Grace as middle name options, too. I’m ready to write of all those names, to be honest.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:16:13 +0000

I like Faith and Grace, I have no problem with the religious meaning, but they are just a little boring to me.. Amity, Verity, Felicity and Clementine are more interesting and anyway, usually I like a longer name.

By: Katharine

Katharine — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:39:05 +0000

Almost without exception, I adore virtue names. I don’t know why because I’m not usually one for such overt displays of meaning, but for whatever reason virtue names feature heavily amongst my favourite names: Grace, Constance, Clementine, Felicity and Verity (I could go on!) I can’t pin it down but something about these names feels so calm, peaceful, hopeful and resolved.

Faith is one of the few exceptions to this rule, its not that I hate her, I just don’t feel anything towards her. I’d go as far as to say that I find her a little lacking despite her weighty meaning. The root of my antipathy is probably more to do with her ‘th’ sound than anything else, she’s over too quickly for me, lisp and she’s gone…

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:22:37 +0000

I like Faith, she’s just not for me. Like Lola, I’d likely sooner use several other of the virtue names. It’s not her fault, either: being secular, I just shy away from the (very) strong Christian associations that name would have here where we live. I also find twin names like Hope & Faith decidedly corny, but darn it, they’re just so optimistic I can’t help but like them.

By: Lola

Lola — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:26:43 +0000

Faith remains one of the few Virtue names I like. Don’t love, but deifnitely like. while I’m more apt to use Clementine, Amity or Verity (yep, I love that virtue!) But Faith is the one popular one I can like. Probably because Faith has many faces. Faith is not just Christian in orientation. I’m Wiccan and have Faith equal to that of my Catholic Mother.

I find her pretty, sweet and definitely stronger than Grace or Hope. A simply lovely moniker, even today. Maybe especially today.