Pilgrim Baby Names

Looking for a pilgrim baby boy or girl name? Those first sturdy pioneers who fled the country of their birth on the Mayflower, destined for a new life with religious freedom in the New World, bore many different names that can serve as inspiration to modern parents-to-be. From classic standbys like Katherine and Alice to more unique names such as Humility and Remember, come check out the passenger list of the Mayflower for your perfect baby name!

Pilgrims on board the Mayflower for its legendary transatlantic voyage to the New World had a variety of names. Many were named classic names that are still popular today such as John, Mary, William, Thomas, Elizabeth and the like, but as half of the passengers were fundamentalist puritans, there were many very unique virtue names as well. Virtue names were generally concepts -- nouns or adjectives that were admired and desired.

There were many duplicates -- for example, there were many named John and Mary -- so we simplified the passenger list for you and divided it up into a boy list and a girl list (you might be surprised to find that the child named Love was a boy).. While you may not be interested in a baby name such as Oceanus (a baby born during the voyage), Resolved or Wrestling, you might find a interesting name here!

Mayflower names for baby girls

Alice
Ann
Constance
Damaris
Desire
Dorothy
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Ellen
Humility
Joan
Katherine
Mary
Priscilla
Remember
Rose
Sarah
Susanna

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Mayflower names for baby boys

Bartholomew
Christopher
Degory
Edmund
Edward
Elias
Francis
George
Gilbert
Giles
Henry
Isaac
James
Jasper
John
Joseph
Love
Moses
Myles
Oceanus
Peter
Resolved
Richard
Robert
Roger
Samuel 
Solomon
Stephen
Thomas
William
Wrestling

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