The Top 17th and 18th Century Quaker Names

Are you searching for the right baby name for your little bundle of joy? Picking the wrong name can result in a /r/Tragedeigh. So let us turn toward the noble and dignified names of Quakers during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Isabella Rosner is a doctoral student at King's College in London who studies the material cultures of Britain from the 1600s to the 1800s. She's an expert on women's needlework during that period.

She examines an era when Quaker sects of Protestant Christianity were enormously popular in England. As a result, she's run across a lot of names that were normal by standards of that culture and time, but would be considered a bit eccentric today.

Personally, I think that "Love Beer" would be an excellent choice for an adult. "Experience Cuppage", though, sounds a bit naughty.


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Reuben Rawbone and Hercules Cross sound like hunks. Isah Young-Husband is a name that doesn't age well, if you know what I mean. I am quite taken with the name Persilla Pye.

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