Virtue Names

  1. Integrity
    • Origin:

      Word name
    • Meaning:

      "integrity"
    • Description:

      Integrity may be an outstanding quality, but Honor or True may work better as names.
  2. Purity
    • Origin:

      Virtue name
    • Description:

      A puritan virtue name that's only slightly less challenging than Chastity. It was used for nearly 20 baby girls in the contemporary US in one recent year.
  3. Pleasance
    • Origin:

      English
    • Meaning:

      "feeling of pleasure or delight"
    • Description:

      This virtue name was the middle name of Alice Liddell — the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books.
  4. Welcome
    • Origin:

      Word name
    • Description:

      Warm and open, but way too much teasing potential.
  5. Inspiration
    • Origin:

      Word name
    • Description:

      Inspiration might inspire some as a middle name choice.
  6. Illumination
    • Origin:

      Word name
    • Description:

      Illumination is a many-syllabled entrant in the new-fashioned virtue name group, but doesn't stand much chance of rivaling shorter choices like Hope and Faith.
  7. Verdad
    • Origin:

      Spanish
    • Meaning:

      "truth"
    • Description:

      A modern virtue name possibility.
  8. Cheerful