Repentance is fabulous, in that wacky Puritan name way. On the male side, when was the last time anyone named a kid "Increase"?

I remember a Russell who did that, but not Emmett. It was night, the road was closed for repairs, Russell decided to walk down it anyway.

Oh, right, it was Russell. It's those doubled letters that confused me.

Temperence!

I have a "Temperance Baker" way back in my family tree. 1700s New England. Presumably she wouldn't have been one for making rum cakes, but given my family's history of drunks the name may well have turned out Little John-ish.

Basically drank himself out of school.

We had a Myron who did that.

David, you chose the one name mentioned today that I'd take as a super sekrit coolio middle name. I love the sound of Esme...and I've never read a word of Twilight.

I love Honor as well.

In the personal mission statement worksheet I passed out a couple of weeks ago, one of the elements is choosing words that, if necessary, you would be comfortable substituting for your actual name.

In a case like that, my alternate universe name would be True. (Sans the evil-AU manchu, ftr.)

I like the name Prudence. In fact, Clovis' second-in-command is named Prudence.

I keep trying to convince friends who are expecting babies that Clovis is a charming name, and no one listens to me.

I seriously doubt that Temperance Baker was named for that kind of temperance -- although her parents might have been aiming for chastity. It was a much more general moderation word for centuries before it came to be applied to food and drink, and even then was about controlling your appetites. It didn't get the association with teetotalism until the rise of Temperance Societies in the 19th century.

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(even a Juan Carlos!)

That's my cousin.

Seriously. It is.

A name I just love but don't think I could use for my pasty white future child is Cesar. Love it so!

Pru has such a nice, comfy sound to it.

One of my voice characters is named Prudence Portnoy. She's the groupie girlfriend of Nigel Vapid, the keyboard player for the Cynical Pigdogs. She goes by Pru, but he calls her 'Puddy.'

I should say that in real life, I know a woman named Truly. she is as lovely as the name suggests.

I love "True", too, which is why it's the prefix for my LJ and Flickr accounts.

Whenever I think of "Truly" I always imagine "Truly Scrumptious" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which was always one of my favorite films as a kid.

Still one of my favorite films, actually.