Wacky, Cruel, Bizarre & Beautiful Puritan Names: Curated by Slate

In 🧐researching my ⬅previous piece on the name 📛Trinity, I stumbled upon 📰Slate's ⏪2013 article originally titled — Puritan names: Lists of bizarre religious nomenclature used by Puritans (then retitled: A Boy Named Humiliation: Some Wacky, Cruel, and Bizarre Puritan Names). Trinity made it to #10 on its '10 of the Sweetest Puritan Names' List joking, "The name saw a burst in popularity in 1999—due to a particular film, I suppose." 

📰Slate goes into a brief history of Puritanism saying: "Puritanism has its roots in the late sixteenth century, after Henry VIII broke ties with the Catholic Church. The Puritans believed that reforms had not gone far enough and advocated for a church entirely divorced from Catholic ceremonies."

📰Slate is adamant, "Perhaps their greatest gift to history, however, is their wonderfully strange taste in names. A wide variety of Hebrew names came into common usage beginning in 1560, when the first readily accessible English Bible was published. But by the late 16th century many Puritan communities in Southern Britain saw common names as too worldly, and opted instead to name children after virtues or with religious slogans as a way of setting the community apart from non-Puritan neighbors. Often, Puritan parents chose names that served to remind the child about sin and pain. Many Puritan  names started to die out after 1662, when the newly restored monarch, Charles II, introduced new laws that cracked down on nonconformist religions and consolidated the power of the Anglican Church. Despite this, some of the names have remained in common use in Anglophone countries."

📰Slate "collected some of the best, worst, and strangest names the English Puritans came up with. Most of these are courtesy of the 1888 book by Charles Bardsley, Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (seen here on the Public Domain Review’s website), which includes Parish records with details about some of the people who had these names to show some of these names are still in use. Despite their eccentricities, the Puritans did leave us some beautifully resonant names. Names like Verity, Felicity, and Hope more than make up for the Humiliations, Die-wells, and Kill-sins." 

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Well, without further ado...

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📃20 Puritan Names That Are Utterly Strange:

1. 📛Dancell-Dallphebo-Mark-Anthony-Gallery-Cesar. Son of Dancell-Dallphebo-Mark-Anthony-Gallery-Cesar, born 1676.
2. 📛Praise-God. Full name, Praise-God Barebone. The Barebones were a rich source of crazy names. This one was a leather-worker, member of a particularly odd Puritan group and an MP. He gave his name to the Barebones Parliament, which ruled Britain in 1653.
3. 📛If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned. Praise-God’s son, he made a name for himself as an economist. But, for some inexplicable reason, he decided to go by the name Nicolas Barbon.
4. 📛Fear-God. Also a Barebone.
5. 📛Job-raked-out-of-the-ashes
6. 📛Has-descendents
7. 📛Wrestling
8. 📛Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith
9. 📛Fly-fornication
10. 📛Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save. Brother of “Damned Barebone”. I can only imagine this name shortened to “Save.”
11. 📛Thanks
12. 📛What-God-will
13. 📛Joy-in-sorrow. A name attached to many stories of difficult births.
14. 📛Remember
15. 📛Fear-not. His/her surname was “Helly”, born 1589.
16. 📛Experience
17. 📛Anger
18. 📛Abuse-not
19. 📛Die-Well. A brother of Farewell Sykes, who died in 1865. We can assume they had rather pessimistic parents.
20. 📛Continent. Continent Walker was born in 1594 in Sussex

                📃12 of the Cruelest Puritan Names:

1. 📛Humiliation. Humiliation Hynde had two sons in the 1620s; he called them both Humiliation Hynde.
2. 📛Fly-debate
3. 📛No-merit. NoMerit Vynall was born in Warbleton in Sussex, a fount of beautiful names.
4. 📛Helpless
5. 📛Reformation
6. 📛Abstinence
7. 📛More-triale
8. 📛Handmaid
9. 📛Obedience
10. 📛Forsaken
11. 📛Sorry-for-sin. Sorry-for-sin Coupard was another resident of Warbleton.
12. 📛Lament

📃12 Strangely Pleasant Puritan Names:

1. 📛Silence
2. 📛Creedence
3. 📛Dust
4. 📛Diffidence
5. 📛Desire. In the UK, seven babies were named this in 2012.
6. 📛Make-peace. This name was in use at least until 1863; see William Makepeace Thackeray, the novelist.
7. 📛Ashes
8. 📛Tace. It’s another word for silence, and is of course a female name.
9. 📛Placidia
10. 📛Kill-sin. Kill-sin Pimple did Jury service in the 1650s.
11. 📛Freegift
12. 📛Vanity

📃10 of the Sweetest Puritan Names:

1. 📛Jolly
2. 📛Liberty. 129 were born in the UK in 2012.
3. 📛Tenacious
4. 📛Happy
5. 📛Felicity. 302 babies got this name in 2012.
6. 📛Hope. 416 babies took this name in 2012.
7. 📛Prudence. 13 babies got this name in 2012.
8. 📛Amity. 5 babies got this name in 2012.
9. 📛Verity. 131 babies were born with this name in 2012.
10. 📛Trinity. 69 Trinities were born in 2012. The name saw a burst in popularity in 1999—due to a particular film, I suppose.

My reaction is: OMFG❗😮 to most of these names. They really are unreal 🫠 — especially the lists of strange and cruel names. 🤨 First off, all the names with the -'s really irk me 😤 and they are just  ridiculous! 🤡 (Sorry not sorry!🤷🏾‍♀️) I get the "good" intent 😏 behind them... but wow! 😅 

📛Thanks?!? 🙏 For what??? NO not a name! 😂 📛Die-Well??? ⚰ Can you get any more morbid? Are 📛Handmaid 🧹 and 📛Humiliation 😔 brother and sister names??? 📛Freegift 🎁 given to a girl is just asking for trouble! 😬 And 📛Abstinence??! 🚫 Really?!?! NO that's not a real name. 🤣 And then 📛Wrestling 🤼‍♂️ just randomly sprinkled in. 😆 

The saving grace from this batch of horrendous 😱 names on whole, is that there are some beautiful, interesting and meaningful names on the lists. 👀 I really love 📛Continent 🌎 strangely. 📛Remember is very lovely. 🥰 📛Desire 💋 and 📛Vanity are maybe better stripper 💃 names 😄 but I 🙋🏾‍♀️ still like them. 📛Hope 🤞 is just a great name 👍🏾👍🏾, probably the most normal name on the lists. 😯 📛Felicity is nice too. 📛Liberty as well. 📛Happy 😊 is wonderful and 📛Jolly 😃 is cute. 📛Trinity is of course cool. 😎

After seeing these lists of 🤯outrageous names, it's pretty safe to say that anything goes truly to name one's child 🤦🏾‍♀️as far as ⏪Puritan times, up until ⏩today. I'm one for 🤪wild, 🦄unique names but these make me believe the parent(s) was/were off their rocker(s) 🥴 naming a child e.g.: 📛Experience! It should have been: Experiment, because why not? 🙄 

Today's WTF ⁉️🤬 and 😲shocking first names have nothing 🙅🏾‍♀️ on Puritan 🥇 names. I think 🤔 I change my mind: 📛🌊Aquaman is ✔tame, ✔great and ✔makes sense compared to 🫣obscene: 📛Fly-fornication! 😖 

NAME OF THE DAY: Trinity

📺Reality show 💘Love 🏝Island USA (season 8) has a female cast member with the 🗣lively, ✝holy, number 3️⃣three oriented name of: 📛Trinity. 

Trinity is a word with religious meaning of: "a group of three; triad. Also called Blessed Trinity. Also called Holy Trinity. The Trinity. The union of three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ) in one Godhead, or the threefold personality of the one Supreme Being."

📖Bible Hub explains: "The doctrine of the Trinity is a central tenet of Christian theology, describing the nature of God as three distinct persons in one essence: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This concept, while not explicitly named in Scripture, is derived from a comprehensive interpretation of biblical texts and has been affirmed by the historic creeds of the Christian faith. The New Testament provides clearer revelation of the Trinity. The baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3:16-17 presents all three persons: "As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him. And a voice from heaven said, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.'" Here, the Father speaks, the Son is baptized, and the Spirit descends."

📖Bible Gateway interestingly points out in a think piece written by a Christian believer: "The word Trinity itself never shows up in Scripture. Anywhere. So I’ve also long wondered: For a belief that sits at the center of the Christian faith, what should we make of this big, important word missing from the Bible’s vocabulary? Is the Trinity in the Bible? If the actual word cannot be found, I have concluded again and again, the Trinity’s truth stretches across the Bible’s many pages. It interweaves so much of what we see of God in God’s character and work. And the Trinity, as the early church found, provides the best explanation for how the three persons belong together, work together, operate together for our life and salvation."  

In terms of 📛Trinity used as a first name, Behind The Name says, it has only been in use as a given name since the 20th century. 

⏪1964 seems to be the year Trinity entered onto US name 📊charts - 📛Nameberry's🍒 data shows.

📛NB🍒 says, "For 12 years, Trinity appeared in the US Top 100. Nevertheless, it remains in the US Top 500, and was given to nearly 900 girls in 2023." Currently Trinity ranks #428 in US Top 1000.

The reason for Trinity rising📈 in popularity for 👶baby 💗girls is due to the huge, futuristic film 🎥The Matrix in 1999. 😎Trinity was played by actress Carrie Ann Moss. "Trinity surged up the charts in the early 2000s, following the release of The Matrix. In The Matrix, the name is used to suggest a parallel between the character and God and to create a sense of mystery and power around her. Interestingly, however, the movie actually made Trinity feel more usable, familiar, and cool as a name option. In just two years, it made an impressive jump from the latter end of the charts to the US Top 100, where it remained for more than a decade," 📛NB🍒 says. 

Trinity made it to #10 on 📰Slate's '10 of the Sweetest Puritan Names' List joking, "The name saw a burst in popularity in 1999—due to a particular film, I suppose."

📛Nameberry🍒 describes the of Latin origin Trinity as a name that "feels both spiritual and trendy." 📛NB🍒 expands asking and answering, "What does the future hold for Trinity? It's religious aspects may well keep it in use for years to come and with Genesis in the Top 100, and other religious word choices like Chosen and Halo rising up the charts, it might just have a resurgence in the future."

📍Texas & 📍District of Columbia are where the most people named Trinity live. 

I like the name 📛Trinity, it's a 🎉fun name (due do the 🎦film history behind it) yet it's a 💭thoughtful, deep name (due to 🙏religious aspect to it). It definitely fits the personality of the bubbly Trinity Tatum on 💘Love 🏝Island. I actually knew two Trinities. 😮 One Trinity I met during college, she was nice from what I remember. The other I met a few years ago, however her name was spelled cutely 📛Trinitee - she had a bold personality. I like 👍🏾👍🏾 the other used variation 📛Triniti - it's adorable. 🥰

📛Trinity is also used as a 💙boy's name, peaking at #779 in ⏪1975. I prefer it used for 💗girls more so because I'm used to hearing it as a girl's name but I don't mind it on a boy. 🤷🏾‍♀️ And it really makes more sense 🤔 it should be given to boys more as the Trinity is masculine in nature. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛TRINITIES:

📛Trinity Rodman (💗daughter of 🏀basketball player Dennis Rodman)

📛Trinity Bosh (💗daughter of 🏀basketball Chris Bosh)

📛Trinity Adkins (💗daughter of 🤠🎤country singer Trace Adkins) 

📛Coco Trinity Chung (👯‍♀️twin 💗daughter of 🎥actress Diane Farr & Seung Yong Chung) 

📛Trinity McCray Fatu aka "Naomi" 🤼‍♀️ (pro. wrestler) 

📛Stephanie "Trinity" Finochio  🤼‍♀️ (former pro. wrestler) 

📛Joshua "Trinity Kardashian Bonet" Jones 👑📺(personality from RuPaul's reality show Drag Race)

📛Ryan "Trinity Taylor" Taylor 👑📺(personality from RuPaul's reality show Drag Race)

📛Wade "Trinity" Brammer 🎶🎧 (DJ) 

📛Trinity 🎥 (character in movie They Call Me Trinity)

📛Trinity "Trini" Kwan 💛💥📺 (character on show Power Rangers)  

📛Trinity Ashby 🏍📺 (character on show Sons of Anarchy) 

📛Trinity Santos 🏥📺 (character on show The Pitt)  

📛Trinity Wells 📺 (character on show Doctor Who, Torchwood & The Sarah Jane Adventures)  

📛Trinity 📺 (character on show Trailer Park Boys)  

📛Trinity Magewood 📕 (👯‍♀️twin character in the book The Children of the Red King by Jenny Nimmo)

📛Trinity Foxx 📕 (character in the book series Scorched by Mari Mancusi)

📛Trinity 🖊🗯 (comic book character in Brotherhood of Evil)  

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Trinity:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/T/TR/TRINITY/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Trinity: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10

NAME OF THE DAY: Sincere

📺Reality show 💘Love 🏝Island USA (season 8) has a male cast member with the 💌heartfelt name of 📛Sincere. 

Sincere's introduction on 💘Love 🏝Island is cute 👌🏾: 

"My name is Sincere. I'm 25 years old and I'm from Cape May, New Jersey. I love my name. I like to be cheesy. I often end my emails or letters, I be like, Sincerely, Sincere."

Ariana Madix (host): "Sincere, I love your name. Do you feel like you live up to your name?"

Sincere: "100%"

Sincere is an English word:

Sincere is derived from the Latin word sincerus meaning "pure and clean", 📛Nameberry🍒 says. "Sincere is associated with being honest, acting from the heart, and feeling deeply - qualities many parents hope their children grow up to possess. Reminiscent of Puritan and Pilgrim name choices, Sincere is a relatively modern virtue name that has been in the US Top 1000 since the 2000s. The name was given to nearly 500 boys in 2023, placing it within the Top 600, and while the name does feel bold, it also fits in besides Chosen, Loyal, and Boone," 📛NB🍒 further explains. 📛Sincere can also be used as a 💗girl's name. Sincere for baby 💙boys currently ranks at #631 in US Top 1000. 

📍New Jersey is where the most Sinceres live (✔💘Love 🏝Island's Sincere is from the state). 

I love 😍 the name 📛Sincere. I 👂🏾heard Sincere first as a name in a urban crime 🎥film character during the ⏪90s. But never as a real first name until recently. I like the duality of the name Sincere 🤷🏾‍♀️ — on one hand by definition it means 'honest' 😇 but... that 'Sin' 😈 start of the name spells trouble (and that seems to be the case with 💘Love 🏝Island's Sincere. He's being referred to as a "villain" in the villa due to him making a 🐠fish comment about women 😮). I see someone named Sincere as someone nice but with a naughty 😘 side. I think it's a really cool 😎 name to give and have. Plus it could be fun for the wearer of 📛Sincere to truly play up either the 🙂"good" or 🙃"bad" sides — within their genuinely, really great name. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛SINCERES:

📛Sincere McCormick 🏈 (pro. football player)

📛Dion "Sincere Lizzy" Hamilton 🎙/ 🎶/ 🧥 (former rapper & music manager, fashion entrepreneur)

📛Vincent "Sincere Show" Coffey 🎶🎧 (dj)

📛Albert "Lamont Sincere" Brown 🎶🎛 (engineer)

📛 Sincere aka "Sin" 🎥 (character in the movie Belly played by 🎙rapper Nas [born: Nasir Jones])  

📛Sincere Jackson 🎵 (TikTok content creator) 

♀️Female Version of 📛SINCERE:

📛SINCERELY

💭I love Sincerely more, over naming a girl Sincere, because Sincerely just looks & sounds more feminine, pretty & sweet. 🥰

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Sincere:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/S/SI/SINCERE/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Sincere: 👍 OR 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙/10  

A woman named Cinderella finds her happily ever after

The TODAY show recently profiled a real life woman named the 🧚‍♀️fairy tale📖 name of 📛👠Cinderella✨! 🤯 

📛👠Cinderella✨ Kemunto Kidwell explains how she from Kenya, became the bearer of the dreamy, storybook📖 / Disney🏰 movie🎥 name every little girl 👧🏿👧🏾👧🏽👧🏼👧🏻👧 knows the tale of: “Growing up, we were not very well off, and my dad is a big dreamer." To her dad (an English literature teacher with a fondness for fairy tales), 👠Cinderella✨was a “grass-to-grace” story about perseverance: a young woman who overcame hardship through hard work and ultimately found a better life. But growing up, 👠Cinderella✨ did not always appreciate having the name of one of the world’s most recognizable fictional characters. “Kids would tease me at school,” she admits. “And I went from being proud of my name to embarrassed.” By age 11, she had asked friends and classmates to call her 📛Cindy instead, a choice that followed her into early adulthood.

After becoming a model, 👠Cinderella✨ continued to keep her legal name at arm’s length. In 2016, when she won the title of 👑Miss 🌍World Kenya Kisii County, she used the nickname Cindy, that she had adopted as a child. However, the name she had long kept to herself continued to draw admiration. Whenever people saw “👠Cinderella✨” written on official documents, they often remarked on how beautiful it was. And It wasn’t until years later that 👠Cinderella✨ began to see her own life reflected in the fairy tale her father loved.

At 25, 👠Cinderella✨ left Kenya and moved to the United States alone. In America, she found herself starting over without a support system. Back home, she had built a successful career as a model, artist and makeup artist. For the first three years, she worked as a caregiver, setting aside many of the creative pursuits that had once defined her. She spent her days helping others, cooking meals, cleaning homes and caring for clients. But unlike the fairy-tale heroine, however, she says the people she cared for treated her with kindness. Looking back, she can’t help but notice the irony of finding herself in a role that mirrored the character she was named after. “Wake up, clean the house, cook for them, draw with them, sing with them,” 👠Cinderella✨ recounts. 

Then In 2023, 👠Cinderella✨ magically met her real life 🤴prince, Bradley Kidwell. The couple married seven months later. “My husband has always treated me like a queen,” 👠Cinderella✨ gushes. 

As far as her distinct name, she is returning to social media and creative work under the name she once tried to hide. “I keep on joking that I’m my own fairy godmother, because I transformed my own life,” 👠Cinderella✨ jokes. At 30, she says she finally understands why her father chose 👠Cinderella✨. “Now, I’m becoming proud of it. I’m at the happily-ever-after part of the story.” 

Behind The Name says the name 📛👠Cinderella✨ means "little ashes" in part from the French name 📛Cendrillon. 

📛Nameberry🍒says the name 📛👠Cinderella✨ means "little ash-girl" and it is "one familiar name never used for real people, for obvious reasons." 

📛NB🍒 expands on 📛👠Cinderella✨: "🏰Disney 👑Princess 📛names are full of magic and wonder. Many successful Disney movies have significantly impacted naming trends, and the princess characters are historically some of the most influential. One of the most widely known fairy tales of all time is the rags-to-riches story of  👠Cinderella✨. The name 👠Cinderella✨ is meant to be a mashup of 📛Cinder, as in ashes, and 📛Ella, meaning girl. While 👠Cinderella✨ has not, nor will it likely ever, get any sort of significant use (👠Cinderella✨ entered the US Top 1000📊 in 1894 and ranked at  #1256📈. Unfortunately it seemed to peak at popularity last in 1970 at  #4807📉.) as a given name, some retellings provide a different perspective on the heroine's name. In Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation, as well as the 2013 Broadway adaptation, the character's real name is Ella, and 👠Cinderella✨ is merely a teasing nickname given by her evil step-sisters due to her job of sweeping chimneys. Ella definitely has a lot more potential, currently ranking at #25 in the US after resurfacing from its 100-year hiatus. It should also be noted that the name 📛Cindy rose significantly after the original Disney movie's release, reaching its peak a few years later in 1957. Coincidence? Maybe. Cindy was already on the rise, but I like to think a few parents may have been inspired by the sweet 👠Cinderella✨."  

📛👠Cinderella✨ has a variant spelling: 📛Sinderella. 📛Names.org says: "Sinderella is a modern, stylized variant of 👠Cinderella✨. The “Sin-” spelling likely emerged in late 20th–21st century Anglophone pop culture as a playful or edgy respelling, sometimes evoking “sin” for tongue-in-cheek contrast with the virtuous heroine." 

📍California🌞 and 📍Alaska🥶 are the states where the most 📛👠Cinderellas✨ call home.🏡 

Below are a variety of comments from Behind The Name on the name 📛👠Cinderella✨:

I absolutely love 🥰 the name 📛👠Cinderella✨ being given to a real life girl! 🤗 It's a beautiful, charming name (I love 😍 the alternate, more modern 📛Sinderella as well) — plus who wouldn't want to be one the very few 👠Cinderella✨ walking around in the world?! With the 💗heart-warming story of 📛👠Cinderella✨ Kemunto Kidwell — it's inspiring 🌠an I'm especially glad she 💯embraced her super special name her wonderful father 🎁gifted her. 👌🏾 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛👠CINDERELLAS✨:

📛👠Cinderella✨ "Cindy" Sanyu 🎤 (singer in ex girl group Blu*3) 

📛👠Cinderella✨ "Cindy" Obenita 🚶‍♀️ (model & beauty pageant title holder of 👑Miss Intercontinental 2021) 

📛Diana 👠Cinderella✨ Mildred (Bowes-Lyon) Somervell 💗 (daughter of nobleman John Bowes-Lyon; uncle of 👑Queen Elizabeth II)

📛👠Cinderella✨ 🎼 (woman sung about in song by 🎤singer Diana Vickers)

📛👠Cinderella✨ 🎼 (woman sung about in song by 🎤singer Britney Spears)

📛👠Cinderella's✨ 🧚‍♀️Fairytale📖 🎼 (woman sung about in song by 🎙rapper Sid Shyne) 

📛👠Cinderella✨ 🎼 (woman sung about in song by 🎙rappers Future &🎙Travis Scott)

📛👠Cinderella✨ 🎼 (girl sung about in song by 🎤singer Steven Curtis Chapman)

📛👠Cinderella✨ Welles 👶🏻💗🎥 (baby girl, daughter character of character Tom Welles, played by Nicolas Cage in the movie 🎞8MM) 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛👠Cinderella✨:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/C/CI/CINDERELLA/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛👠Cinderella✨: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10 

When Michelle Williams Met Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams the 🎤singer, former member of 🎶Destiny's Child👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿 — met the other Michelle Williams — 🎥actress and ex partner of the late 🎥actor 🤡Heath Ledger. 

It's very cool the two name twins linked up🆙— but was it bound to happen if they both have a "once superstar⭐" first name (#4📈 in the 70s and currently #465📉 in US Top 1000📊) and the third most popular family last name in the US?  

Now if they both had the same middle name as well, that would truly be kismet.💫 But Michelle the actress' is: 📛Ingrid. Michelle the singer's middle name is... Michelle!  📛Tenitra is her first name! 🤯

Names.org says on the very rare name Tenitra: "Tenitra is a modern African American given name most widely recognized through the singer Tenitra Michelle Williams (of Destiny’s Child), which helps date the name’s emergence to late-20th-century U.S. Black naming traditions. Its structure and phonetics suggest creative coinage rather than direct derivation from a single Old World source; scholars often read such names as blendings or elaborations on familiar elements. Tenitra plausibly fuses the numeronymic “Ten-” (a stylistic prefix also seen in names like Tenisha) with the feminine suffix “-itra” (common in names such as Demetra/Demetra or Lakitra), aligning it with the broader African American onomastic pattern of innovative morphology, melodic cadence, and individualized identity. The meaning is thus primarily expressive and cultural-signaling uniqueness and community style-rather than a fixed lexical meaning traceable to one language."

I like singer William's first name Tenitra (which I never knew was her name until I researched her for this piece. 🤦🏾‍♀️ And I was a Destiny's Child fan growing up! 😖) over the too common Michelle. I also like actress William's middle name Ingrid more so than Michelle. Michelle is a nice name (I like the meaning: who is like God?, French var. of Michael) but it's a neutral name too — there's nothing special about it 🤷🏾‍♀️ — but it's so familiar (I once had two bffs at the same time named Michelle. 🙋🏾‍♀️ In 🏫school they were known as 'the Michelles' and teachers would refer to them by their last names. Even in our friend group, myself and our other friends would refer to them by the initial of their last name often to differentiate the two.) you almost automatically like it. Nevertheless, I can't imagine either Williams going by anything but 📛Michelle.

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Michelle: 👎/👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗/10

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Tenitra: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗/10

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Ingrid: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10