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Help[Opinions] Re: If you had to name a daughter one of the "Quadfecta" of stereotypical girl virtue names, which would you pick?
in reply to a message by Dianatiger
Grace.
Mostly because it sounds like a name to me - I just hear a name, not an invocation of virtue. I think it's very nice sounding.
I wouldn't pick based on which virtue. But I do like the "nuance" of Grace, that you mention. Makes it seem not too sentimental or too pious.
Joy is cute, and almost namey enough. I do hear the word a little bit, though, and it doesn't strike me as a virtue name. If I intended to name a child for joy as a virtue, I don't feel like Joy would do, because of "joy" names usually meaning "child who brings [a parent] joy." But if pressed and I could not use Grace, I would consider Joia, Joya, Gioia.
Faith is pretty, and not sentimental - it leans too pious for me. I personally don't love the sounds in it, and the word is very noticeable.
Hope seems sentimental to me, and the sound of the word is totally unappealing to me. Especially since it's such a common word, and diluted meaning. "Hope it's a good one!" "Hope it won't rain!" And the way people say, "OPE" (like, oh! but cutting themselves off for kind of comic effect). I feel like it's awkward as a name, because of the sound.
- mirfak
Mostly because it sounds like a name to me - I just hear a name, not an invocation of virtue. I think it's very nice sounding.
I wouldn't pick based on which virtue. But I do like the "nuance" of Grace, that you mention. Makes it seem not too sentimental or too pious.
Joy is cute, and almost namey enough. I do hear the word a little bit, though, and it doesn't strike me as a virtue name. If I intended to name a child for joy as a virtue, I don't feel like Joy would do, because of "joy" names usually meaning "child who brings [a parent] joy." But if pressed and I could not use Grace, I would consider Joia, Joya, Gioia.
Faith is pretty, and not sentimental - it leans too pious for me. I personally don't love the sounds in it, and the word is very noticeable.
Hope seems sentimental to me, and the sound of the word is totally unappealing to me. Especially since it's such a common word, and diluted meaning. "Hope it's a good one!" "Hope it won't rain!" And the way people say, "OPE" (like, oh! but cutting themselves off for kind of comic effect). I feel like it's awkward as a name, because of the sound.
- mirfak
