Top 5 ‘pilgrim’ baby names

Harking back to the seventeenth century, these are the top pilgrim ‘virtue’ names

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by Jessica Anais Rach |
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Honour

This noble name was chosen by Jessica Alba for her daughter, and another version of this name is Honora or Honoria.

Mercy

Harking back to the Colonial era, Charles Dickens poked fun at the name nicknaming Mercy and Charity Pecksniff- Merry and Cherry.

Amity

This feminine name means friendship.

Clemency

A variation of Clementine, this name features in Charles Dicken’s novel The Battle of Life.

Patience

Patience is a character in Shakespear’s Henry VIII, and made a comeback on the 1994 names list.

Source: Nameberry.com

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