NAMES FOR THE FAITHFUL

These lists include all the unusual names suggested in

Dogs in the Vineyard; most include the general meaning
of the name in case you are into allegory.

{ BROTHERS }

Aaron 'exalted one' Benjamin 'son of the south'

Abel 'son' Boaz 'swift'
Abiah 'God is my father' Cain 'craftsman'
Abijah Caleb 'dog'
Abraham 'father of many' Carmine 'vineyard'
Abram 'father is exalted' Cleophus
Absalom 'father of peace' Cornelius 'man is strength'
Adam 'red earth' Cuthbert
Alexander 'defender of Cyrus
mankind' Daniel 'God is my judge'
Amos 'to carry' David 'beloved'
Andrew 'manly' Derrick
Archibald Ebenezer 'stone of help'
Artemis 'butcher' Edwin
Asher 'blessed' Eleazar 'God has helped'
August Eli 'high'
Azariah 'King of Life Elias 'God is mighty
above all' Elijah 'Jehovah is God'
Balthazar Elisha 'God is salvation'
Barnabas 'son of Elkanah 'God created'
exhortation' Emmanuel 'God is with us'
Bartholomew 'son of Enoch 'dedicated'
Talmai' Ephraim 'very fruitful'
Esau 'blind' Joachim 'God will establish' { MOUNTAIN PEOPLE CONVERTS: BROTHERS }
Ethan 'strength' Job 'afflicted'
Ezekiel 'God strengthens' Joel 'Jehovah is God' Alfrich Heap-Of-Birds MA-TO-YO-MY
Ezra 'help' John 'God is gracious' Edgar Star-Robe TA-ET-UGHT
Ezri 'embrace' Jonah 'dove' Edward Hairy HU-CU-TE
Gabriel 'God is my Joseph 'God shall add' Gentle-Horse Riggs MO-E-NAT-OIS
strength' Joshua 'God is salvation' Hartley Ridge-Bear NE-DOW-TUCK
Gershom 'bell' Josiah 'God heals' John Washa KUH-SE-O
Hamilton Judah 'God leads' Patterson Red-Bead MI-A-VIS
Hanan 'grace' Jude 'praised' Ralph Chip OH-MA-AH
Hezekiah Lazarus 'God is my helper' Robert Yellow-Eyes THO-THA-IT-TA
Hiram 'exalted brother' Levi 'joined/pledged' Thomas Tame-Hawk NO-KEES
Hosea 'salvation' Luke 'light'
Isaac 'he will laugh' Malachi 'my messenger' { MOUNTAIN PEOPLE CONVERTS: SISTERS }
Isaiah 'God is salvation' Marcus 'mars'
Ishmael 'God hears' Mark 'mars' Valara Pretty ES-TIS
Israel 'may God prevail' Matthew 'gift of God' Edna Tall Bear BAH-EN-NA
Jabez 'born in pain' Matthias 'gift of God' Jeneoeva Bee YEA-ZE-A-NEAP
Jackson Melchior 'king of light' Jenny Low-Arm WAH-STATE
Jacob 'seizing by the heel' Micah 'who is like God' Mary Dancing SA-HI-NAN-NIS-SA
Jairus 'God enlightens' Micajah 'who is like God' Nina Little Coyote O-KA-MA-HA
James 'supplanted' Michael 'who is like God' Rosa Black CHA-KY-CHA-HA
Jamin 'favored' Mitchell 'Godly' Rowena Bird-Bird VA-IS
Japheth 'abundance' Moses 'drawn out of the Stacy Mouse-Food MOW-E-KY
Jared 'descendant' water' Tawkeny Hail TAW-NAGHT
Jaspar 'treasure-master' Nahum 'comforter'
Jedidiah 'beloved of God' Napthali 'wrestling'
Jeduthan Nathan 'gift'
Jeremiah 'God will uplift' Nathaniel 'gift of God'
Jeremy 'God has uplifted' Nehemiah 'Lord’s
Jesse 'gift' consolation'
Jethro 'excellence' Newton
Row Standing MO-NO-A-NI Nicodemus 'victory people' Thaddeus 'heart'
Short Nose KIAS Noah 'long-lived' Theophilus 'friend of God'
Singing Bird MO-E-HAS Obadiah 'servant of God' Thomas 'twin'
Sitting-In-Lodge HO-TO-MO-O-MO Paul 'small' Timothy 'honored by God'
Smoothe Standing CO-ME-O Peter 'rock' Tobias 'God is good'
Southerner HAW-NA-TON Philip 'lover of horses' Uriah 'God is light'
Spotted Bird VA-GIS-A-WAH-US Phineas 'snake's mouth' Uziel 'strength of God'
Squint Eye NO-WA-HY Pleasant Virgil
Standing VA-GIS-NA Raphael 'God has healed' Wiley
Stone Road HE-HO-NI-MAH Reuben 'renewer' Zachary 'God remembers'
Uniter's Herd US-SE-VIS-SA Samson 'child of Shamash' Zadok 'righteous'
Walking Ahead TAH-NE Samuel 'God has listened' Zebedee 'God has bestowed'
Walking Behind TACK-SA Seth 'appointed' Zebediah 'God has
White Buffalo WAH-IS-TAH Shadrach 'godlike' bestowed'
White Skin VE-HEW Silas 'asked for' Zebulon 'exaltation'
Simeon 'obedient' Zechariah 'remembrance of
Simon 'obedient' God'
Solomon 'peaceful' Zedekiah 'justice of God'
Stephen 'crown' Zephaniah 'hidden by God'
Tabor 'misfortune'
 { SISTERS } { MOUNTAIN PEOPLE: EITHER GENDER }

Abiah 'God is my father' Delilah 'delicate' Bad Teeth O-CON-NE-NIC

Abigail 'father is rejoicing' Dinah 'judged' Big Owl MIS-TI-MI-AH
Adah 'adornment' Edwina Black Beaver HO-IS-TAH
Adelaide 'snow-like' Electa Black Hair MO-KI-TO-SE-A
Adelia 'snow-like' Eliphal Blue Bird NU-KO
Adeliza Elisheva 'God is my Crooked Back WO-CHE-PAH
Alexandrina 'defender of satisfaction' Cut Arm A-NA-HI-WA
mankind' Elizabeth 'God is my oath' Desert Red Shin MIS-KO
Almena Emeline Dirty Nose HIS-SI-E-WA-SA
Althea 'white goddess' Esther 'star' Elk Standing MO-NISH
Anne 'favored' Eve 'life' Good Walker HA-UM-TO-MUS
Aphra 'fawn' Fidelia 'loyal' High-Beak Bird NO-KE-HE-USE
Asenath Hannah 'gracious' Howling In Cloud WAH-AH-NIS-TO
Augusta Hester 'Woman of the Howling Night TI-NI-TA
Azubah Hearth' Howling Water PA-WA-NIS-TA
Bathsheba 'an oath' Honora Island MAW-HOA
Bedelia Jael 'mountain goat' Little Eyes TI-YOU-TI-U-EW-EN
Bethany 'house of figs' Jemima 'dove' Little Traveler HO-O-MO-SE
Bethia Jezebel Low Standing WHA-HA-NISH
Candace 'white' Judith 'he will be praised' Make-Out-A-Road HO-AS-TO-NA
Carmel 'vineyard' Kesiah Medicine Dancing MI-EN-O-SO
Carmen 'song' Kezia 'cassia tree' Mourning Howler MU-IN-MIS-TA
Clementine 'peaceful' Lavina Outsider O-HO-MA
Columbine 'dove' Leah 'gazelle' Playing EH-WOLD-SON
Constance Louvina Ptarmigan HA-AS-TUM
Content Madeleine Red Bird MI-AH--VIS
Cornelia Magdalene Red Claws MOW-MIP-PA
Daaris Mahalia 'marrow' Red Leaf MI-VA-PA-TAP
Deborah 'a bee' Malvina Red Plume MU-CHA-NA
Dee 'dark' Marah 'bitter' Red Wheat MY-O-PA-UM
Talking Woman AH-MA-HI Maria 'beloved' Ruth 'companion'
Turtle MA-IN-NO Marianne 'rejoice' Samantha 'listener'
Virgin Woman HE-ZOOA-KI-SA Marilla Sarah 'princess'
Walking Woman UM-MA-HA Margeret 'pearl’ Seraphina 'seraphim'
Weed Woman NE-E-NOW-NE-E Martha 'lady' Sharon 'a plain'
White-Buffalo-Woman WO-IS-TAH Mary 'longed-for child' Submit
Wild-Cat-Woman MUS-KO-VA Mehetabel Susan 'lily'
Woman Standing AH-CHIS-TAH Mindwell Susanna 'lily'
Woman-Afraid-Of-Husband DA-KA-MA-EE Miriam 'beloved' Sybrina
Woman-On-The-Hill MAH-A-YAW Naomi 'my delight' Tabitha 'doe'
Obedience Talitha 'dew'
Patience Tamar 'date palm'
Peninnah 'ruby' Tamara 'date palm'
Permelia Temperance
Phielia Theodosia 'Glory to God'
Philomena Tirzah 'acceptance'
Prudence Tryphena
Rachel 'ewe' Tryphosia
Rebecca 'snare' Waitstill
Relief Zillah 'shade'
 OUTSIDERS AND CONVERTS { MOUNTAIN PEOPLE: WOMEN }

Antelope Woman SUE-I-HE-WUC

Plenty of foreign names (German, French, Dutch, Italian,
Bear Woman NAK-KUH
Irish, Norwegian, and so forth) are also appropriate.
Black Woman MO-HE-ETS-IM
Black-Foot Woman STEW-IS-TAN-NA
{ MEN }
China Woman MA-NI-AH
Cougar Woman NA-KU
Albert Garvey Labon
Crooked Woman WAH-KE-HI
Arthur Gilbert Lafeyette
Dove MIS-SO-IH
Arvil Harvey Lakey
Down Woman TA-NO-SU
Bynum Henry Nereus
Elk Woman MO-A-HA-AH
Carl Hugh Walter
Feather Woman WAH-TAH-NA
Clarence James Wesley
Foreign Woman O-NE-HATCH
Coy John William
Good Woman WA-SHA
Everett Joseph Woodrow
Gray Headed Woman WHOP-PINTA-TAN
Lead Woman HO-HI-E
{ WOMEN }
Little Woman MO-CHA-A
Medicine Woman O-WE-HI
Aldene Grace Mina
Mouse Road OH-CHA-IN
Alice Hazel Minnie
Old Woman KAH-IS
Anna Irma Mozelle
Owl Woman MIS-TO-UN-STA
Beulah Izetta Nance
Pipe Woman NO-I
Catherine Lillian Nettie
Red-Belly Woman MA-A-CIH
Clara Lola Nova
Red-Painting Woman MI-TO-MO-NI
Dorothy Lottie Rodena
Sage Woman ONE-HI-YOU
Edna Lucy Rosebud
Sand Girl NAH-BA-IS-SA
Eliza-Jane Margaret Rosemary
Shave-Head-Woman AH-NOSTS-SE-E
Elma Marie Roxie
Shell Woman AH-KA-WAH-NA
Florence Maude Valena
Soaring Woman MOTS-SE-A
Frances Mildred Veigh
Squirrel Woman HO-MA-ERA
Standing Woman LA-CAT-ME-AH
Liver Eater
Mad Wolf
O-AH-A-TUM
HA-KA-NI
SURNAMES
Man Heart MI-NO-ONI-A
This is a combined list of interesting mid-nineteenth-
Man Standing AH-TAH-NU-ISH
century surnames with some specific ones culled from
Night Killer TAHE-VE-NAH
counties in Utah and North Carolina. These are suitable
One-Eyed Bull TO-MA-CHA-MA
for Faithful and outsider alike.
Porcupine Bull ES-CO-TE-SA-IT-TO
Prairie Chief TOW-LO-A-VA
Abernathy Burkey Culver
Pretty Man HIN-KEE-TINA
Adams Burns Dalton
Racer KA-AH-YAT
Allen Burster Davidson
Red Hawk IN-NAH
Allgood Campbell Davies
Red Leggins O-MON-IK-TO
Anderson Cape Doughty
Roman Nose AH-A-HIS
Atkinson Carter Downey
Standing Lightning HO-ITS-E-YOU
Bagley Casstevens Dunn
Thief NO-MOTS-SI-U
Bailey Chambers Edwards
White Man VE-HUE
Baker Church Evans
White Thunder NO-PE-NA-NU-MA
Barron Clark Fisher
Wolf-In-The-Middle HO-NE-O-SO-ST
Barry Cleary Fitzgerrald
Yellow Hawk E-O-YE-YAU
Bell Clifford Flint
Bennett Cline Frazier
Blackburn Cobley Garnett
Blake Colby Garriott
Boswell Collins Garvey
Bowery Combs Gentry
Boyce Cook Gibson
Brackett Coon Gore
Bradshaw Cox Green
Brownfield Craybeck Griffiths
Brumfeld Crosby Gross
Bryant Croswell Haldene
Burchette Crozier Hall
Hamilton
Hand
McEwes
McFarland
Selders
Sharpless
MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
Harding McKissick Shaw
Here are some names for Mountain People; both converts
Harris McMullan Shore
to the Faith and unbelievers in their natural unenlightened
Harwood McPherson Sisson
state. A translation into English is followed by the
Hauser Meyers Smalley
original name, syllable by syllable. These names, in
Hilderband Middleton Smitherman
reality, are Cheyenne, and the transliteration is the work
Hill Miller Speer
of Indian agents who were not interested in linguistic
Hinshaw Milton Sprague
fidelity. The crude approximation is probably the best
Hobson Mock Stanchfield
your average Faithful can manage, anyway. Many of
Hodgkiss Morrell Steelman
these names are highly evocative and practically write
House Mosteller Stephens
their own stories.
Howard Nelson Sweeney
Howell Obrien Taylor
{ MOUNTAIN PEOPLE: MEN }
Hughes Offitt Thomas
Huntoon Parker Thompson
Bare Bow NAW-AH-A-MA
Jackson Perry Thornton
Bear Raising NUC-QUA-IS-SU-VA
Jewet Plunkett Trivette
Black Cloud MUC-A-TA-WUC
Karsolara Price Van Foy
Black Eagle NIT-NU-TAH-WA-IST
King Reavis Van Valzak
Black Wolf MO-TOW-NA-MA
Lane Reece Walker
Bob-Tail Wolf HO-NI-WA-HAS
Law Reece Wallace
Bull-Looking-Around HO-TO-WA-SY-TO
Lawrence Reynolds Welborn
Catching-In-Battle WAH-AT-TOUGH
Lee Richardson White
Dog Man WAH-TAM-A-KET
Lewis Riley Wilson
Eating Bull LA-CUM-AN
Lutz Robertson Windsor
Fast Wolf OT-NE-U-QUI-QUISH
Mackie Rodgers Winthrop
High-Back Wolf HAW-KO-NE-USE
Martin Roe Wise
Left Hand Bull AH-HO-A-MOW
Mason Rutland Wolfe
Little Bear NAW-QUIS
Matheson Ryder Woodley
Little Coyote O-KO-MISH
McAlmond Sampson York
Little Man MI-HI-AT
McDonald Sands Zachary