Comments on: Howdy Pilgrim: Names From Plymouth Rock

By: Diana Peterfreund Blog | Dr. StrangeName, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the BabyName Bloggers (part 1)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:38:38 +0000

[...] “traditional” names were things like Michael and Elizabeth, they showed me that the Pilgrims on the Mayflower were naming their kids Journey, Oceanus, Wrestling, and Truelove, and that names I thought were [...]

By: namemuststay

namemuststay — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:57:17 +0000

I love names from the pilgrims like Remember or Experience (love from afar, of course). An indication of patriotism and puritanism in the earliest American settlers!

By: Fetching Names: Virtuous Boys | Appellation Mountain

Fetching Names: Virtuous Boys | Appellation Mountain — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:02:49 +0000

[...] For those of you in the US, I hope you’re having a lovely day filled with the ones you love. If you’re outside of the US, here’s hoping you have yet to grow weary of posts about Pilgrim names. [...]

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

Baby Name of the Day: Temperance | Appellation Mountain — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:50:38 +0000

[...] as “Her Temperance.” Temperance appears on the lists of Puritan virtue names, but odds are she was relatively rare. There was a ship called the Temperance that traveled to Virginia in 1621, and a former Virginia [...]

By: Jodi

Jodi — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:40:32 +0000

Ooh, I love this! I have a soft spot for virtue names anyway, but pilgrim names? Irresistible! Oceanus is one we’ve toyed with for a middle name. There is a vague possibility that he was an ancestor of mine. My mom is a Hopkins whose family (as family legend has it) came over on the Mayflower, and baby Oceanus who was born en route was, I believe, a Hopkins. Knowing he had fabulously named siblings is a great new bit of information to ponder!

I also tried to sell my hubby on Resolved, but no joy there

By: Katharine

Katharine — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:56:17 +0000

My husband and I had the Virginia from VA argument concerning our coming baby. He wanted to honor his Grandmother; Virginia, but I thought it would be ridiculous to give a child the same name as the state in which they live. We compromised and are using it for a middle.

By: photoquilty

photoquilty — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:47:20 +0000

A friend of mine here in VA just gave her infant daughter Virginia as a middle name to commemorate her family’s time in VA. They’re a military family, so they move all over the place. Be happy her other daughter’s middle name wasn’t Nevada.

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:22:54 +0000

Wow, you’re in Norway!? I’ve always wanted to visit.

And I live in the Washington DC area, meaning that Virginia is about thirty minutes away on the Metro – it could be even closer, technically, if I were driving. (We’re in Maryland.) Somehow, that makes it seem awkward for a girl’s name – and yet, I’d still use Mary …

By: Dearest

Dearest — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:25:35 +0000

There you are! I knew I shouldn’t have said anything, but it was my only reference to anything like that… We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Norway, nor do we go trough the American history in that much detail so I should have known I was way off track! I just wanted to play along I guess

And it was behindthename.com who said Roanoke Island was New England, so I guess maybe they need a history lesson as well?
It’s all in their ‘Virginia’ entry which is where I remembered it from.. I’ve fallen in love with Virginia recently…

Happy Thanksgiving anyway! Hopefully I just gave people something to laugh about

By: photoquilty

photoquilty — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:34:19 +0000

Roanoke Island isn’t New England, Dearest! Abby was talking about the pilgrims and Thanksgiving, not the other settlers down in the Southern US.