Quaker Name Generator

Plain names from two centuries of Friends

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Generate historical Quaker names from about 1650 to 1900: plain Biblical and quiet virtue given names such as Elihu, Mahlon, Tacy and Achsah with surnames found in Friends' meeting records in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, Indiana, England and Ireland, like Lippincott, Hinshaw, Braithwaite and Goodbody.

About Quaker names

The Religious Society of Friends kept careful records of births, marriages and removals, and the names in those records have a recognizable sound. Friends favored plain Old Testament names, Elihu, Caleb, Amos, Jesse, Mahlon and Zimri for men, Phebe, Lydia, Achsah, Asenath and Peninah for women, beside quiet virtue names like Patience, Mercy and Charity and a few favorites of their own, such as Tacy. Welsh Friends near Philadelphia added Cadwalader, Rees, Gainor and Lowry. The exhorting names linked with the Puritans are not part of this list, and Friends used no titles.

The list covers roughly 1650 to 1900. Delaware Valley families such as Haines, Lippincott, Sharpless and Yarnall sit beside English Friends (Braithwaite, Crewdson, Tuke, Rowntree), Irish Friends (Pim, Goodbody, Grubb, Bewley), the North Carolina meetings (Hinshaw, Hiatt, Hadley, Newlin) and the Ohio, Indiana and Iowa meetings of the nineteenth century (Stubbs, Coate, Furnas, Votaw). A small group comes from Nantucket, New England and Long Island.

Some entries carry a family surname as a middle name, a habit common among Friends by the 1800s. Given names and surnames are paired freshly here, and a surname in this list does not show that a family was or is Quaker.

How to choose Quaker names

  • Match the name to the meeting. Hinshaw, Hiatt and Hockett belong in North Carolina or Indiana, Lippincott and Stokes in New Jersey, Braithwaite and Crewdson in the north of England, Pim and Goodbody in Ireland.
  • Keep the era in mind. Elihu, Mahlon, Achsah and Peninah fit any decade, while Clarkson, Elwood, Addison and Elmina sound like the nineteenth-century Midwest.
  • Leave titles off. Friends did not use Mr., Mrs., Sir or Reverend, and their records give the plain name, so write Jesse Hinshaw and Tacy Lippincott as they stand.
  • For a family, repeat the surname and draw the given names from the same region. Deborah Maris and Simeon Maris could be sister and brother.
  • If you are writing about a real meeting or family, go to its own records. This list is for fiction and naming ideas, not a genealogical source.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of given names did Quakers use?

Mostly plain Biblical names, with a strong liking for the Old Testament: Caleb, Amos, Enoch and Jesse, or Phebe, Lydia, Rachel and Keziah. Quiet virtue names such as Patience, Mercy and Grace appear too. Entries like Mahlon Stokes, Achsah Borton and Zimri Hiatt show the pattern.

How are Quaker names different from Puritan names?

The two groups shared many Biblical names, but the long exhorting names linked with the Puritans are absent here. The surnames differ as well. This list draws on families found in Friends' records in the Delaware Valley, the South, the Midwest, England, Wales and Ireland, while a Puritan list leans on early New England families.

Are these real historical people?

No entry is meant to be a particular person. Given names and surnames that occur in Friends' records are paired freshly, and the names of well-known Friends were avoided. Because these families used the same names again and again, a match with someone in an old record can still happen by chance.

Does a surname in this list mean a family was Quaker?

No. Names such as Roberts, Evans, Wilson, Thomas and Clark were carried by many families of every faith, and the rarer ones were never only Quaker either. The list shows surnames that turn up in Friends' records, nothing more.

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A: 54 names

  • Aaron Beeson
  • Aaron Gilbert
  • Aaron Knight
  • Abel Kirkbride
  • Abigail Beale
  • Abigail Boake
  • Abigail Bowne
  • Abigail Dixon
  • Abigail Stacey
  • Abigail Yardley
  • Abijah Trueblood
  • Abner Harlan
  • Abner Rodman
  • Abraham Haughton
  • Achsah
  • Achsah Benbow
  • Achsah Borton
  • Achsah Embree
  • Addison Woody
  • Agnes Benson
  • Alfred Tuke Braithwaite
  • Alice Bonsall
  • Alice Jowitt
  • Allen Steer
  • Almeda Pickett
  • Alpheus Hough
  • Amos Barrington
  • Amos Meredith
  • Amos Pusey
  • Amos Reckitt
  • Amos Southwick
  • Amy Bacon
  • Amy Underhill
  • Ann Canaday
  • Ann Corder
  • Ann Gregg Steer
  • Ann Griffith
  • Ann Haworth
  • Ann Paxson
  • Ann Wigham
  • Anna Aldam
  • Anna Grubb
  • Anna Haight
  • Anna Hinshaw
  • Anne Newsom
  • Anthony Penington
  • Arthur Ashworth
  • Asa Matlack
  • Asenath
  • Asenath Hockett
  • Asenath Leeds
  • Asenath Moorman
  • Avis Bassett
  • Azariah Farquhar

B: 15 names

  • Barclay Charles
  • Barclay Parrish
  • Barnabas Folger
  • Barnabas Fowler
  • Barnabas Hunt
  • Barzillai
  • Barzillai Buzby
  • Benjamin Benington
  • Benjamin Grubb
  • Benjamin Pritchard
  • Benjamin Slocum
  • Bethiah Borton
  • Beulah Drinker
  • Bevan Hanbury
  • Bridget Wilkinson

C: 21 names

  • Cadwalader Bevan
  • Caleb Hazard
  • Caleb Heald Garretson
  • Caleb Passmore
  • Caleb Spence
  • Caleb Winslow
  • Calvin Osborn
  • Caroline Macy
  • Cassandra Earle
  • Cassandra Norris
  • Catharine Longstreth
  • Catharine Wynne
  • Charity Satterthwaite
  • Charity Stanley
  • Charles Peckover
  • Christiana Sharpless
  • Christopher Jowitt
  • Clarkson Pleasants
  • Clayton Rhoads
  • Content Slocum
  • Cyrus Jay

D: 21 names

  • Daniel Buffum
  • Daniel Hancock
  • Daniel Hodson
  • Daniel Robson
  • David Middleton
  • David Pugh
  • David Vestal
  • Deborah Albright
  • Deborah Backhouse
  • Deborah Cowgill
  • Deborah Maris
  • Deborah Passmore Brinton
  • Deborah Sinton
  • Delilah Hiatt
  • Dillwyn Coates
  • Dinah Bunker
  • Dinah Goodbody
  • Dinah Wills
  • Dorcas Whitehead
  • Dorothy Dilworth
  • Dorothy Pennock

E: 61 names

  • Edith Collins
  • Edith Stanley
  • Edward Albright
  • Edward Crosfield Wigham
  • Edward Southall
  • Edwin Naish
  • Edwin Updegraff
  • Elam Pitts
  • Eleazar Bond
  • Eli Garrett
  • Eli Lindley
  • Eli Reece
  • Elias Cornell
  • Elias Fox
  • Elias Worrall
  • Elihu
  • Elihu Haines
  • Elihu Mendenhall
  • Elinor Edwards
  • Elisha Stokes
  • Eliza Battin
  • Eliza Greer
  • Eliza Thorp
  • Elizabeth Boake
  • Elizabeth Comly
  • Elizabeth Fennell
  • Elizabeth Hollowell
  • Elizabeth Marmon
  • Elizabeth Rees
  • Elizabeth Spence

E, continued

  • Elizabeth Whitwell
  • Elkanah Baldwin
  • Ellen Doncaster
  • Ellin Foulke
  • Ellis Roberts
  • Ellwood Hallowell
  • Elmina Tomlinson
  • Elwood Stubbs
  • Emily Gregg
  • Emma Kendall
  • Emma Tritton
  • Emmor
  • Emmor Hollingsworth
  • Enoch Levis
  • Enoch Ozbun
  • Enoch Rowntree
  • Enos Harlan
  • Enos Starr
  • Ephraim Haines
  • Esther Buckman
  • Esther Rickman
  • Esther Seebohm
  • Esther Townsend
  • Eunice Engle
  • Eunice Swain
  • Eunice Swain Barnard
  • Evan Griffith
  • Evan Owen
  • Exum Outland
  • Ezra Beeson
  • Ezra Churchman

F: 3 names

  • Francis Huntley
  • Francis Neale
  • Francis Palmer

G: 16 names

  • Gainor
  • Gainor Humphreys
  • Gainor Pugh
  • George Cash
  • George Edmundson
  • Gideon Pancoast
  • Gideon Titus
  • Gilbert Howgill
  • Goodbody
  • Grace Bunting
  • Grace Ellwood
  • Griffith Ellis
  • Griffith Llewellyn
  • Guli Sterry
  • Gwen Ellis
  • Gwen Owen

H: 20 names

  • Hannah Bewley
  • Hannah Borton Lippincott
  • Hannah Braithwaite
  • Hannah Draper
  • Hannah Ellis
  • Hannah Strangman
  • Hannah Thornburg
  • Hannah Yarnall
  • Harriet Hoare
  • Henry Horniman
  • Henry Newsom
  • Hepzibah Hussey
  • Hinshaw
  • Hiram Nordyke
  • Hiram Painter
  • Hope Almy
  • Hope Lippincott
  • Hugh Pugh
  • Huldah Stratton
  • Humphrey Rees

I: 11 names

  • Ira Carter
  • Irena Terrell
  • Isaac Birkbeck
  • Isaac Coate Furnas
  • Isaac Duckett
  • Isaac Haviland
  • Isaac Jefferis
  • Isaac Jessup
  • Isaac Lecky
  • Isaac Votaw
  • Isabella Story

J: 51 names

  • Jabez Deacon
  • Jacob Willets
  • Jacob Wilson
  • James Greer
  • James Marriage
  • James Whitwell
  • Jane Bennis
  • Jane Davies
  • Jane Fayle
  • Jane Hampton
  • Jane Horniman
  • Jane Huntley
  • Jehu Harvey
  • Jehu Lewis Roberts
  • Jehu Walton
  • Jemima Bundy
  • Jemima Shinn
  • Jeremiah Pike
  • Jeremiah Tatham
  • Jesse Darlington
  • Jesse Frazier
  • Jesse Hinshaw
  • Jesse Lupton
  • Jethro Mitchell
  • Joab Chamness
  • Job Troth
  • Joel Farlow
  • Joel Gilpin Pyle
  • Joel Hiatt Hinshaw
  • Joel Pennock
  • Joel Perisho
  • John Duckett
  • John Llewellyn
  • Jonathan Moffitt
  • Jonathan Tyson
  • Joseph Coppock
  • Joseph Fayle
  • Joseph Haughton
  • Joseph Sharpless Pennock
  • Joseph Todhunter
  • Joshua Brockbank
  • Joshua Cope
  • Joshua Pike
  • Joshua Todhunter
  • Josiah Albertson
  • Josiah Biddle
  • Josiah Binyon
  • Josiah Capper
  • Judith Coleman
  • Judith Darnell
  • Julia Butler

K: 3 names

  • Katharine Sturge
  • Keziah Stuart
  • Keziah Tatum

L: 21 names

  • Lavina Jessup
  • Leah Levis
  • Letitia Emlen
  • Lindley Garretson
  • Lippincott
  • Lois Brinton
  • Louisa Schooley
  • Lowry Evans
  • Lowry Jones
  • Lucinda Ratliff
  • Lucy Jacob
  • Lucy Neave
  • Luke Audland
  • Lydia Cadwallader
  • Lydia Gibbins
  • Lydia Henley
  • Lydia Hoopes
  • Lydia Leadbeater
  • Lydia Newlin Hadley
  • Lydia Southall
  • Lydia Worth

M: 52 names

  • Mahala Furnas
  • Mahlon
  • Mahlon Stokes
  • Mahlon Woody
  • Malinda Coate
  • Marcus Bewley
  • Margaret Bevan
  • Margaret Chandlee
  • Margaret Edmundson
  • Margaret Modlin
  • Margaret Peele
  • Margaret Vaux
  • Margaret Wakefield
  • Margery Camm
  • Margery Yarnall
  • Maria Malcomson
  • Maria Mounsey
  • Mariabella Tanner
  • Marmaduke Elkinton
  • Martha Bogue
  • Martha Cash
  • Martha Fowler
  • Martha Kirk
  • Martha Nicholson
  • Martha Reckitt Spence
  • Mary Ann Peacock
  • Mary Haines Stokes
  • Mary Hodgkin
  • Mary Thomas
  • Mary Unthank
  • Mary Walpole
  • Mary Wickersham
  • Mary Willis
  • Matilda Heald
  • Matthew Rawlinson
  • Mehitable Wing
  • Mendenhall
  • Mercy Arthington
  • Mercy Brinton
  • Mercy Gause
  • Micajah
  • Micajah Elliott
  • Micajah Gaskill
  • Miles Birkbeck
  • Milton Talbert
  • Miriam Eastburn
  • Miriam Fry
  • Miriam Newby
  • Miriam Worth Paddock
  • Mordecai Chandler
  • Mordecai Maule
  • Mourning Overman

N: 10 names

  • Naomi Kinsey
  • Naomi Newlin
  • Nathan Commons
  • Nathan Malcomson
  • Nathan Pearson
  • Nathan Wharton
  • Nathaniel Lucas
  • Nathaniel Tregelles
  • Nehemiah Jefferis
  • Newton Wildman

O: 5 names

  • Obadiah Ballinger
  • Obed Barnard
  • Oliver Elleman
  • Owen Foulke
  • Owen Lewis

P: 20 names

  • Patience Howland
  • Patience Painter
  • Patience Springett
  • Peninah
  • Peninah Hadley
  • Peninah Hilliard
  • Phebe
  • Phebe Branson
  • Phebe Doan
  • Phebe Prideaux
  • Phebe Rotch
  • Phebe Seaman
  • Phebe Sharpless
  • Phebe Stanley Woody
  • Philip Sewell
  • Phineas Heston
  • Pleasant Hockett
  • Priscilla Scattergood
  • Priscilla Tuke
  • Prudence Atkinson

R: 40 names

  • Rachel Crosfield
  • Rachel Fothergill
  • Rachel Gilpin
  • Rachel Mote
  • Rachel Newlin
  • Rachel Pim
  • Rachel Pim Goodbody
  • Rebecca Harrold
  • Rebecca Jacob
  • Rebecca Maris Levis
  • Rebecca Millikan
  • Rebecca Pyle
  • Rebecca Ransome
  • Rebecca Tylor
  • Rebecca Walpole
  • Rees Edwards
  • Rees Llewellyn
  • Reuben Backhouse
  • Reuben Pease
  • Reuben Pim
  • Reuben Starbuck
  • Reuben Woodward
  • Rhoda Lukens
  • Rhoda Ricks
  • Rhoda Worth
  • Richard Lecky
  • Richard Rickman
  • Richard Seebohm
  • Robert Cadwalader
  • Robert Clibborn
  • Robert Corder
  • Robert Gibbins
  • Robert Wynne Jones
  • Rowland Owen
  • Rufus Binford
  • Ruth Baily
  • Ruth Darby
  • Ruth Shackleton
  • Ruth Symons
  • Ruthanna Ladd

S: 41 names

  • Samuel Braithwaite
  • Samuel Crewdson
  • Samuel Goodbody
  • Samuel Ridgway
  • Samuel Yarnall Hoopes
  • Sarah Ann Dillon
  • Sarah Backhouse Priestman
  • Sarah Bevan
  • Sarah Clibborn
  • Sarah Crewdson
  • Sarah Marriage
  • Sarah Pennell
  • Sarah Toms
  • Satterthwaite
  • Scattergood
  • Semira Kenworthy
  • Seth Gardner
  • Seth Swayne
  • Sharpless
  • Shubael Macy
  • Sibyl Logan
  • Sidney Cadwalader
  • Silas Clark
  • Silas Trimble
  • Silas Tylor
  • Simeon Crosfield
  • Simeon Lindley
  • Simeon Maris
  • Solomon Hoggatt
  • Solomon Reeve
  • Sophia Tuckett
  • Stacy Twining
  • Stephen Gifford
  • Stephen Lister
  • Susanna Bennis
  • Susanna Gillett
  • Susanna Hodgin
  • Susanna Lamborn
  • Susanna Penrose
  • Susanna Priestman
  • Sylvanus Gardner

T: 19 names

  • Tabitha Cadbury
  • Tabitha Kersey
  • Tabitha Shoemaker
  • Tacy
  • Tacy Dicks
  • Tacy Lippincott
  • Tamar Wistar
  • Theodore Gurney
  • Thistlethwaite
  • Thomas Bewley Grubb
  • Thomas Chandlee
  • Thomas Copeland
  • Thomas Dilworth
  • Thomas Elwood Moon
  • Thomas Fennell
  • Thomas Priestman
  • Thomasin Gilpin
  • Timothy Passmore
  • Tobias Zachary

U: 1 name

  • Uriah Zane

W: 6 names

  • Wilfrid Barclay
  • William Edgerton
  • William Sinton
  • William Strangman
  • William Thistlethwaite
  • Wilson Mills

Y: 1 name

  • Yardley Stackhouse

Z: 8 names

  • Zaccheus Paddock
  • Zebulon Hallock
  • Zebulon Newbold
  • Zenas Hoopes
  • Zeno Hadley
  • Zimri
  • Zimri Hiatt
  • Zimri Johnson