[madison10]

How is the name any different than the names given to Puritan girls AND boys: Patience, Remember, Surenus, Remembrance, Oceanus, Mercy, Charity, Serenity, etc.?

Focus, people.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I liked the name Faith for my first daughter, but my wife nixed it.

[BykrBayb]

“Focus?” Bofus?

[Advil000]

Because you have to assume that the play on words, and the meaning of it, was absolutely intentional.

That’s not something you do on accident. And if you do, you get the certificate changed after your friends shocked reactions and before things become too permanent.

[SampleMan]

How is the name any different than the names given to Puritan girls...

I haven't met a Surenus,Remember, Oceanus, Mercy, Charity, or Serenity in my life. I've hear of women called Patience, but never met one (probably the false advertising issue). So I guess you proved the point about odd names standing out, mainly for being odd.

[Peter Libra]

My favourite biblical name for a girl and I certainly never dared mention it as a choice of a daughters first name. It was was Hepzibah. Now the novel "Silas Marner" had as a character little Hepzibah. Throughout the novel, she was called using the diminutive of "Eppie". People seem to have a fine way of reducing a name that may not be the best for a child. Eustacia is reduced to Stacy and Thomasin as Tamsie. These were two heroines in a novel by Thomas Hardy.

I have a diminutive for the sweet little girl called Amazing, it is Maisie.

Please excuse the ramble. My wife positively refused my daughters names as Eustacia (fem of Eustace) and Thomasin (fem of Thomas). They are their middle names.

[Kenton]

How is the name any different than the names given to Puritan girls AND boys: Patience, Remember, Surenus, Remembrance, Oceanus, Mercy, Charity, Serenity, etc.?

I have some of those in my family. I had an ancestor (a male) whose first name was "Wrestling".

[coop71]

Or Piper, Willow, Bristol, Track or Trig...

I’m kidding, but I agree with your point.