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Are there any male "virtue" names?
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Anonymous
Call me old-fashioned, but I love names like Faith, Joy, Hope, etc. Are there any male names of that type? i can't think of any that don't sound like they come straight out of The Crucible.  (I may be old-fashioned, but not that old -fashioned!) Thanks.
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Anonymous
| Christian. |
Anonymous
| Honor, which I think of as a boy, but was recently used by some celebrity for a girl. |
Anonymous
| Gabriel |
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| Doesn't Anthony mean emaculate? |
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| Earnest |
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I think more often you'll find something that has a "virtuous" meaning in another language, like Felix, which means lucky or successful in Latin. You can find meanings of most names at http://www.behindthename.com.
Others with more immediate meaning in English: Clement (merciful, mild) Concord (harmony) Ernest Justice |
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ANTHONY
Gender: Masculine Usage: English Pronounced: AN-th?-nee, AN-t?-nee [key] English form of the Roman family name Antonius, which is of unknown Etruscan origin. The most notable member of the Roman family was the general Marcus Antonius (called Mark Antony in English), who for a period in the 1st century BC ruled the Roman Empire jointly with Augustus. When their relationship turned sour, he and his mistress Cleopatra were attacked and forced to commit suicide, as related in Shakespeare's tragedy 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606). The name became regularly used in the Christian world due to the fame of Saint Anthony the Great, a 3rd-century Egyptian hermit who founded Christian monasticism. Its popularity was reinforced in the Middle Ages by the 13th-century Saint Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of Portugal. In English it has been commonly (but incorrectly) associated with Greek ????? (anthos) "flower", which resulted in the addition of the h in the 17th century. |
Anonymous
| For SUPER old-fashioned, how about Learned? |
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It does seem more people name boys after an individual with qualities they admire than after the quality itself.
Atticus Finch from "To Kill a Mockingbird" has no doubt spawned many young boys named Atticus today. |
Anonymous
| The only Honor I've known was a girl... I guess it could go either way, but it sounds female to me. |
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Justice
Reverand |
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| Noble |
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| pride |
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| true |