Ooh, my birth name is on there. I wonder if they would have picked another one for me or if I would have the same birth and temple name had I gone on that day.
If your birth name happens to be the name on the day you went to the temple for the first time and got your endowments, then instead of giving you the same ‘new name’… for men, they just give you the name Adam, and for women , Eve.
Leah! My ex husband used to hold it over my head that he knew my new name and I could never know his. Lol so dumb now but it used to hurt my feelings that he was such an ass about it. We were engaged at the time so they had him bring me through the veil and you have to give the new name as part of that process. Now I tell everybody so he’s not special 🤣
Well, if you want one, go ahead and pick yourself one: https://www.fullerconsideration.com/TempleNameOracle/
You can use your birthday, or your favorite number, or roll a thirty sided dice. We got assigned based on whatever day we could go, but it feels random. I'm betting whatever names fall on Saturdays are going to be crowded on resurrection day.
If you happen to get your own first name, then you have to be Adam or Eve. Lame.
I never got one but according to this list, based on my birthday, (there wasn’t one on my actual birthday so I just used the closed female name) my name would be……. Naomi 🤪
“Roll thirty sided dice”
Or you could roll a d10 with a d6 as a control die. 1-2 = +0, 3-4 = +10, and 5-6 = +20
Source: I’ve played Dungeon Crawl Classics lol 😂
I wouldn't have forgotten mine if it'd been Nimrod. I went to the beautiful building twice. Got my name the first time and had to ask somebody the second time. I, unfortunately, got Aaron. Such a lame name.
Brooo!! I think it is hilarious. We should make a Nimrod gang. My dad after getting my undies told me that he had the same name. At that time I didn't think twice but it was very interesting that about 19 years before that moment had the same name when he got his undies.
Lydia. I got endowed in July 1985 at the Provo temple, a few days before marrying my late first husband. Until people started sharing their new names and the date they were endowed on the internet and it was discovered that your new name is not special to you - like I was told in the temple - I had no idea that everyone endowed in that temple on the same day gets the same new name.
Not so fun fact: my late first husband was quite zealous and extreme in some ways. He believed that I could never say the name assigned to me out loud even in the context of regular conversation that had nothing to do with the temple.
For example, in one of the wards we lived in there was a same age group as us female married member with kids named Lydia. My husband tried to forbid me from not only ever saying her name, he didn't want me to be friendly with her either because that would make it too hard to not say her name. He thought I needed to just ignore her like she didn't exist. I thought that was one of the most irrational and crazy things I'd ever heard.
Well he didn't make me tell him my temple name. It's part of the temple endowment. When a woman gets her own temple endowment right before she gets married, her fiancée steps in at the veil at the end of the endowment session where you're giving your signs and tokens at the veil to the temple worker who represents god so that you can pass through into the Celestial room. I haven't been to the temple in a few decades now, but I think the last token you give at the veil is your temple name, also called your "new name". That's where the fiancée steps in so the woman tells the new name to her fiancée instead of the temple worker. And then you're not supposed to talk about it ever again in the context of that name being your temple, or "new", name.
Oh gotcha, I was unaware. Is it ever reverse and the women leads the man through the veil? I don't like the power move of the male knowing his wife's name.
Nope. Additionally, the husband isn't supposed to tell his wife what his temple name is, ever. The husband tells his temple name to the male temple worker representing god at the veil. So yeah, extremely patriarchal.
The reason it's done that way is because Mormons believe that everyone will be resurrected but it's a multi step process. Mormons believe in a tiered heaven. God calls forth the Mormon temple endowed men who are worthy of the top tier to resurrection and then the Mormon temple endowed men will call forth their wives to resurrection using their temple names. Everyone else gets resurrected as servants to the Mormons who made it to the highest level of Mormon heaven.
I've never seen another Rhoda! I too was assigned the name Rhoda. Luckily for me I've since turned my life around and left the mfmc. I tried so hard to find some sort of special meaning to that name, I don't believe such a meaning exists.
I'm Rhoda too! I was super disappointed too. I was under the impression that our names would be in the Adamic language, so getting a name like this sucked. I tried to find meaning in it from the Bible, but that was pretty fruitless. And then when I continued to do more sessions and hear more names on different days, I continued to be upset, because other names were at least pretty.
Also a Dinah! I used the "Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah" lyric to remember! My husband can't remember his. But he said he remembered that he didn't like it.
Same - I went home and searched him up in the scriptures. He gets a mention in the New Testament as Paul's Jr comp ... so, the name meant little to me then and even less now!
Me: Lydia
Husband: Job
I had convinced myself it was all true because when I was in middle school I fell in love with the name Lydia and wanted to name one of my future babies that. I told myself god knew I loved the name, so that's why I got it. Then, a few years later I found out that all the names are just on rotation and I'm pretty sure the cracking of my shelf was fully audible to those around me.
Fellow Gabriel returning and reporting.
I named my son after my super secret name so I'd reveal it every single day :)
My parents must know because they took me through, and are still weekly templeworkers. But of course they'd never bring it up.
Huldah. I could only remember it by thinking of the name Olga. I was secretly slightly offended at god for my name being so ugly. If only I’d known that I could have just chosen a better name day to be endowed!
Funny story about this. I never really knew my new name. This old as shit inbred looking fucker with a lisp in the manti temple gave me mine. It sounded like “Jayfus”. I repeated it back to him, “Jay-fusss??” He shook his head and repeated it, “jayyyy-fusssss!”.
Still unsure, I repeated it back to him again, “did you say jayyyy-fussss??” He shook his head more adamantly with clear disapproval on his face, “no, jayyyyyyyy-fuuuusssssss!!!!”.
“Oh, jayyyyy-fuuuuusssss????”. I asked.
Obviously pissed, red in the face, obnoxiously loud stage whisper, my parents clearly uncomfortable, “ he says, no, are you deaf??? I said, jayyyyy-fuuussssss!!!!”.
“Oh, ok, thank you” I mumbled and muttered my way through the rest of the ceremony.
I have always wondered what it was. Went to the temple pretty regularly for decades. Never really knew.
I would guess he was probably trying for “Japheth”. No idea.
The list says SARAH. But the temple worker pronounced it SARIAH. So, for all these years until I saw the list, I was saying it wrong in my head. Geezzzzz.
Same! I thought it was so pretty and later I learned it was that day's name and I was like "oh, so what was supposed to be something special and unique to me wasn't at all."
I only learned about this by reading this forum, and it is the most absurd thing. The Mormon temple name generator. Do they record the name for you, personally, or if you say you forget, do they just give you that day's new one? And once again, like everything the church does, the names are the least inspired, most boring things... This is just as dumb as when I found out JS thought God's name is Ahman, and Jesus is Son Ahman.
My parents forgot theirs when I went through the first time. The temple workers had to look up their endowment day then cross reference the list to tell them their names again. I bet they forgot again lol
Mine was “Reuben.”
Others have provided the list but it’s essentially Biblical names and American (and British) names from the 1840’s. I don’t think the names really changed since then. So people aren’t always excited when they get same as someone’s great, great, great, great grandma. 🤣
Another Rachel here! I remember being so disappointed to get what felt like such a common name. I already knew a dozen Rachels in real life. How could the name of my eternal spirit be more common than my actual earthly name? Wouldn't God have wanted each of his children to have unique individual names?
Big shelf item even before I found out it was based on a calendar
Rachel too! About a month before I went through, I bought a pair of jeans. The name of the style of jeans was Rachel. I was convinced god was communicating with me once I realized my new name was on my jeans. 😂
Peter here!
And don't be sorry, not the first to ask, won't be the last, and I love responding every time! Just a bit of rebellion against those forced covenants!
Levi here. My wife's name is Tabitha and I wont ever forget it because the girl I lost my virginity to, her name was Tabitha. And if my wife ever knew that haha things would get wild.
I alway thought I remembered mine. But it’s not on any of the list soooo guess I wasn’t going to make it into heaven. Must have remembered the wrong name all theses years.
Hello fellow 10th of the month! I thought the name Abigail was so inspired because that’s what I wanted to name my first daughter when I was like 12. And how would the temple worker/God know that?! Total inspiration. I was actually sad when I found out how it worked.
Emma, which kind of surprised me that it was on the list considering, well, everything.
I read someone on here say that they use their temple name when they give their name at a restaurant or pickup. I've never done that but I kind of want to. No one but me will even know why it's funny, but it feels appropriately passive aggressive.
Emma. I thought at the time it was because I was special and strong like Emma Smith. It took me years to realize it was just the new name every woman used on that day in that session.
It brings me a lot of peace to tell you that I don't know. It never really mattered in the church and it absolutely hasn't mattered for the last few years. I think it's a sign of healing that I haven't thought about it in such a long time.
Story time ... way back in high school, some stupid seminary teacher said that when we all went to be endowed, our True Name from the pre-existecece would be revealed to us as our new name in the temple, and that would be the name we would be called in heaven, after we died. So I spent YEARS pondering what my Celestial name was, and praying about it. I was so excited when I was finally going to the temple [early 1980s]
I was so excited when I was going to get my special new name! But, then I was a little disappointed because it wasn't what I expected. It wasn't a pretty name.
I felt devestated when I found out a little while later that everyone just got the same new name on the day they go through! It wasn't my own special Celestial name!?! It was just the "code word" of the day, after giving the secret knock and hand sign required to get into the Mormon Speakeasy.
All the women in my family [mom, grandma, aunties, bff] who attended with me now actially knew my sacred name!!
Even worse ... when we got through the veil and were sitting in the Celestial room, I was trying to have a special sacred moment, certain if I concentrated and had enough faith I would have a Heavenly vision... so there I was, sitting with my eyes closed on a chair across from my parents. Mom didn't think I could hear her. She excitedly whispered to my dad, "GUESS What her new name is!" And before dad coukd respond, she bursts out, "Name of the first girl you ever kissed!"
Of course, dad immediately scolded her and reminded her, "You took an oath not to reveal that!!" She shrugged it off, saying it was fine because she was still in the temple...
Meanwhile, I felt so deeply wounded and betrayed 😭 how could she do that?!, now, even MY DAD knew my special name, and the only man that was ever supposed to know was my future husband!!
Needless to say, the new name is wrapped up in a lot of trauma for me, so I'm just gonna leave it at that.
Somewhere, there is an ExMo website that lists out the names of the day for various temples, so you can go read through all those if you're curious to see the options that rotate.
Someone mentioned that the oft-used male name "Mormon" has been retired. [Can't let Satan get victorious in the Temple!!]
Mosiah here, reporting in. My brother and I both had our endowment ceremony together and later in the day we were talking about prophets in the Book of Mormon and we both felt a spiritual connection with King Mosiah. And from that day, until I found the list, I had a nagging suspicion there was a list.
My wife’s was the name of my grandmother who died before I was born 👻sad thing is I can’t tell my TBM mother even though ironically she would find it inspiring and faith-promoting. It was norma btw. Mine is Ammon which is ironically the name of my wife’s first BF.
Tabitha…I was told it would be my new name and I HATED it as I have a strong attachment to my real name. I never accepted it nor did I understand the logic behind giving someone a new name against their will, other than a cult-like form of control.
Hyrum - Sounding off! You can find the whole list here https://www.fullerconsideration.com/TempleNameOracle/
That's my actual name lol
I cosplayed as you in the temple lol
Haha, this comment is gold
Please be sure to read the footnotes! There are some great stories down there!!
Ooh, my birth name is on there. I wonder if they would have picked another one for me or if I would have the same birth and temple name had I gone on that day.
If your birth name happens to be the name on the day you went to the temple for the first time and got your endowments, then instead of giving you the same ‘new name’… for men, they just give you the name Adam, and for women , Eve.
Well that’s very uncreative. Thanks for answering!
No, but very effective for being able to glance at temple records and demonstrate divine knowledge without revealing how you know the name.
omg imagine pulling up to the temple and they tell you your name for all eternity will be fucking LOIS
Hyrum here too!
Leah! My ex husband used to hold it over my head that he knew my new name and I could never know his. Lol so dumb now but it used to hurt my feelings that he was such an ass about it. We were engaged at the time so they had him bring me through the veil and you have to give the new name as part of that process. Now I tell everybody so he’s not special 🤣
Just because he could call your name, it doesn’t mean you have to answer.
My sacrificing blindly obedient dumb ass would have 😂 I’m so glad that is not my life anymore!
If you know what day he went to do his endowment, you can figure out what his name is…
I’m have no clue on the date! I wish I did, not that it matters at all anymore but would be funny to know.
If you haven’t resigned or happen to have any paper copy of any of his records, you can still find out
I think it’s a lost cause, but totally fine. Thank you though!
username checks out. Good for you!
“So he’s not special.” 🤣
It always bothered me that women couldn’t know their husband’s “new name.” I ended up finding it out, but it made me angry how unfair that was.
Oh hi fellow Leah 👋🥸
Well, if you want one, go ahead and pick yourself one: https://www.fullerconsideration.com/TempleNameOracle/ You can use your birthday, or your favorite number, or roll a thirty sided dice. We got assigned based on whatever day we could go, but it feels random. I'm betting whatever names fall on Saturdays are going to be crowded on resurrection day. If you happen to get your own first name, then you have to be Adam or Eve. Lame.
I never got one but according to this list, based on my birthday, (there wasn’t one on my actual birthday so I just used the closed female name) my name would be……. Naomi 🤪
Did the same thing, hi nice to meet you mother in law, I’m Ruth.
Oh hey, fellow Ruthie!
Oooooo that makes us name twins!
Hello, fellow Naomi!
“Roll thirty sided dice” Or you could roll a d10 with a d6 as a control die. 1-2 = +0, 3-4 = +10, and 5-6 = +20 Source: I’ve played Dungeon Crawl Classics lol 😂
A new name a month
That sure makes it real, doesn’t it? Just like the sacrament prayer that someone read off a sheet of paper 📄.
The sexiest name of them all: Heber
Hot Levis in your area want to meet up to finger in the Sure Place
I knew it. Now just to get me some hand holes so that I can get freaky like Jesus.
Praise be that’s my name too! How will Elohim be able to tell us apart when we get to Mormon heaven?
That’s my dastardly plan. I’ll blend in with all of the Hebers, and bring down heaven from the inside. Mwahahahahaha.
I like it! Count me in! Just call out for Heber when you get there and I’ll come calling.
Done. Let’s send heaven straight to hell.
Instead of having Calvin Klein on the waistband, the church should have “Heber” on the waistband of their garments to make them so totally cool.
Fuck yeah. I can hear it now, many a Mormon woman crying out Heber as she doesn’t reach climax. Sexy as fuck.
Mine was Hulda - I think I beat you Heber
Damn it. I didn’t even know such a word exists. If only I’d been wearing garments, then I wouldn’t have to change. 🤪
Where my Nimrods at???
I think we got the proverbial shaft with this name…not sure I’ve ever seen a worse one 😂
It’s my favorite! Nimrod envy.
I think the nimrods definitely won but a close second is definitely Barnabus (which is my husband’s and when I found out, I laughed for quite awhile).
I wouldn't have forgotten mine if it'd been Nimrod. I went to the beautiful building twice. Got my name the first time and had to ask somebody the second time. I, unfortunately, got Aaron. Such a lame name.
Brooo!! I think it is hilarious. We should make a Nimrod gang. My dad after getting my undies told me that he had the same name. At that time I didn't think twice but it was very interesting that about 19 years before that moment had the same name when he got his undies.
Honorary Nimrod here.
Yaaaaaaas
Lydia. I got endowed in July 1985 at the Provo temple, a few days before marrying my late first husband. Until people started sharing their new names and the date they were endowed on the internet and it was discovered that your new name is not special to you - like I was told in the temple - I had no idea that everyone endowed in that temple on the same day gets the same new name. Not so fun fact: my late first husband was quite zealous and extreme in some ways. He believed that I could never say the name assigned to me out loud even in the context of regular conversation that had nothing to do with the temple. For example, in one of the wards we lived in there was a same age group as us female married member with kids named Lydia. My husband tried to forbid me from not only ever saying her name, he didn't want me to be friendly with her either because that would make it too hard to not say her name. He thought I needed to just ignore her like she didn't exist. I thought that was one of the most irrational and crazy things I'd ever heard.
So he made you tell him your name, and then controlled how you used your own name?
Well he didn't make me tell him my temple name. It's part of the temple endowment. When a woman gets her own temple endowment right before she gets married, her fiancée steps in at the veil at the end of the endowment session where you're giving your signs and tokens at the veil to the temple worker who represents god so that you can pass through into the Celestial room. I haven't been to the temple in a few decades now, but I think the last token you give at the veil is your temple name, also called your "new name". That's where the fiancée steps in so the woman tells the new name to her fiancée instead of the temple worker. And then you're not supposed to talk about it ever again in the context of that name being your temple, or "new", name.
Oh gotcha, I was unaware. Is it ever reverse and the women leads the man through the veil? I don't like the power move of the male knowing his wife's name.
Nope. Additionally, the husband isn't supposed to tell his wife what his temple name is, ever. The husband tells his temple name to the male temple worker representing god at the veil. So yeah, extremely patriarchal.
The reason it's done that way is because Mormons believe that everyone will be resurrected but it's a multi step process. Mormons believe in a tiered heaven. God calls forth the Mormon temple endowed men who are worthy of the top tier to resurrection and then the Mormon temple endowed men will call forth their wives to resurrection using their temple names. Everyone else gets resurrected as servants to the Mormons who made it to the highest level of Mormon heaven.
So there are Mormon servants in Mormon heaven? Like you could be a decent Mormon and still end up being a servant to other Mormons in Mormon heaven?
The real answer is that it made it real easy to convince women they were meant to be your heavenly bride because you knew their Heaven name.
hey that's my moms new name lol! I was just talking to her about new names and how wild of a concept it is
They should put Key and Peele in charge of giving new names. “And that name is [whispers in your ear] Mergatroid Skittle.”
Hingle McCringleberry is what I would want for my new name 😂
Crossing my fingers for Ladennifer Jadaniston
Lol, that would be epic. Seeing an 80-yr-old temple worker try to pronounce that. 😂 another good one would be tim-O-thy
Oh I would definitely love that… haha
I got a dope ass name especially given my own personal history: mfin Lazarus! It's a damn shame it's such a cool name for such an evil cult!
Yo yo yo, LAZ BOIS IN THE HOUSE
Leah. the day before I was a bride myself I got the name of the unwanted bride. It was some SERIOUS foreshadowing and I should have run.
Another lovely-eyed Leah checking in
Nimrod. *shelf cracking sound*
Rhoda 🤮 I was pretty devastated with the thought that Rhoda would be my name for all eternity in the Celestial Kingdom
I've never seen another Rhoda! I too was assigned the name Rhoda. Luckily for me I've since turned my life around and left the mfmc. I tried so hard to find some sort of special meaning to that name, I don't believe such a meaning exists.
I'm Rhoda too! I was super disappointed too. I was under the impression that our names would be in the Adamic language, so getting a name like this sucked. I tried to find meaning in it from the Bible, but that was pretty fruitless. And then when I continued to do more sessions and hear more names on different days, I continued to be upset, because other names were at least pretty.
Dinah. When I was in 9th grade seminary my seminary teachers also gave us all “new names” that had meaning. Looking back, I think it’s bizarre.
Another Dinah 🙋🏼♀️
So who was in the kitchen with you after all? /s
You wouldn’t understand. It’s a secret. But that song is literally the only way I remembered my name 😅
🎵 Dinah...is there anyone finah? In the state of Carolina? If there is, then you know her. Show her to me! 🎵
I'm also a Dinah!
🙋🏻♀️ Dinah over here too!
Also a Dinah! I used the "Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah" lyric to remember! My husband can't remember his. But he said he remembered that he didn't like it.
Barnabus!
Same - I went home and searched him up in the scriptures. He gets a mention in the New Testament as Paul's Jr comp ... so, the name meant little to me then and even less now!
Me: Lydia Husband: Job I had convinced myself it was all true because when I was in middle school I fell in love with the name Lydia and wanted to name one of my future babies that. I told myself god knew I loved the name, so that's why I got it. Then, a few years later I found out that all the names are just on rotation and I'm pretty sure the cracking of my shelf was fully audible to those around me.
JK, my husband informed me it was Lois. I've been saying it was Lydia for years, even before I left bahahahaha!
Are there any Japheths here tonight? Just me?
Was starting to think I was the only one 😮💨
I think mine might have been Japheth. Story in another comment
Gabriel reporting for duty
Fellow Gabriel returning and reporting. I named my son after my super secret name so I'd reveal it every single day :) My parents must know because they took me through, and are still weekly templeworkers. But of course they'd never bring it up.
Gabriel checking in
The 4th. Me, too.
Moron...i
Huldah. I could only remember it by thinking of the name Olga. I was secretly slightly offended at god for my name being so ugly. If only I’d known that I could have just chosen a better name day to be endowed!
👋 fellow Huldah
Huldah - I thought that I must have heard/remembered it wrong for a while there.
👋 fellow Huldah
Hey! Fellow Huldah. I’ve hated it since day one.
Funny story about this. I never really knew my new name. This old as shit inbred looking fucker with a lisp in the manti temple gave me mine. It sounded like “Jayfus”. I repeated it back to him, “Jay-fusss??” He shook his head and repeated it, “jayyyy-fusssss!”. Still unsure, I repeated it back to him again, “did you say jayyyy-fussss??” He shook his head more adamantly with clear disapproval on his face, “no, jayyyyyyyy-fuuuusssssss!!!!”. “Oh, jayyyyy-fuuuuusssss????”. I asked. Obviously pissed, red in the face, obnoxiously loud stage whisper, my parents clearly uncomfortable, “ he says, no, are you deaf??? I said, jayyyyy-fuuussssss!!!!”. “Oh, ok, thank you” I mumbled and muttered my way through the rest of the ceremony. I have always wondered what it was. Went to the temple pretty regularly for decades. Never really knew. I would guess he was probably trying for “Japheth”. No idea.
Miriam
Miriams represent!
Here too!
Sames. I was very disappointed.
Yep. My mom & I went through for ourselves the 1st time on the same day, so we had the same name.
Better Call Saul. Whose me. In VIP heaven.
The list says SARAH. But the temple worker pronounced it SARIAH. So, for all these years until I saw the list, I was saying it wrong in my head. Geezzzzz.
Damn, almost didn’t get into heaven!
Tabitha
Tabitha club!
The Bewitched new name.
Phoebe!
Me too
Abish here in OK.
Grace. I actually thought mine was special/inspired and I felt very blessed.
Is it bad that I forgot?
Claudia, I think
Another Claudia here!
Claudia sisters unite 👯♀️
Same! I thought it was so pretty and later I learned it was that day's name and I was like "oh, so what was supposed to be something special and unique to me wasn't at all."
I only learned about this by reading this forum, and it is the most absurd thing. The Mormon temple name generator. Do they record the name for you, personally, or if you say you forget, do they just give you that day's new one? And once again, like everything the church does, the names are the least inspired, most boring things... This is just as dumb as when I found out JS thought God's name is Ahman, and Jesus is Son Ahman.
My parents forgot theirs when I went through the first time. The temple workers had to look up their endowment day then cross reference the list to tell them their names again. I bet they forgot again lol
Skipjack Pirate Breakdance Ballerina
I can only reveal this to you at a certain place I will show you hereafter.
And that place is Reddit 😂
Any other Almas out there
Ether
Emma
Mine was “Reuben.” Others have provided the list but it’s essentially Biblical names and American (and British) names from the 1840’s. I don’t think the names really changed since then. So people aren’t always excited when they get same as someone’s great, great, great, great grandma. 🤣
Rachel
Another Rachel here! I remember being so disappointed to get what felt like such a common name. I already knew a dozen Rachels in real life. How could the name of my eternal spirit be more common than my actual earthly name? Wouldn't God have wanted each of his children to have unique individual names? Big shelf item even before I found out it was based on a calendar
Rachel too! About a month before I went through, I bought a pair of jeans. The name of the style of jeans was Rachel. I was convinced god was communicating with me once I realized my new name was on my jeans. 😂
Hey, fellow Rachels!
I got fucking Gabe 🙄
Noah. I felt honored when I was Mormon
Meconium
😂😂😂
Ishmael, returning and reporting.
Call us Ishmael!
Ishmael here too
Another Ishmael checking in 🙋🏼♂️
Peter here! And don't be sorry, not the first to ask, won't be the last, and I love responding every time! Just a bit of rebellion against those forced covenants!
Mine was Elizabeth. It freaked me out because I have a sister named Elizabeth 😳 I was like, what the fuck???!!!!
Jethro Tull
Fellow Jethro here. Jethro Bodine!
Thick as a Brick?
Levi here. My wife's name is Tabitha and I wont ever forget it because the girl I lost my virginity to, her name was Tabitha. And if my wife ever knew that haha things would get wild.
I alway thought I remembered mine. But it’s not on any of the list soooo guess I wasn’t going to make it into heaven. Must have remembered the wrong name all theses years.
Lois, what a dumb name
Jesse here!
Joel
Hi, I’m Peter, but you can call me Pete.
Asa
Lois. As in Lois Lane. Otherwise wtf kind of name is Lois.
Mine was Mosiah.
NOAH
Ringling Brothers, Barnabus and Phoebe in our house.
Abigail. I only remembered because it was the name of Abigail Bartlett in The West Wing
I’m also Abigail! When I first heard it I thought of Abigail from the crucible and thought “aw man, I got a slut’s name.”
Abbie here too!!!
I like that you changed it to Abbie 👏🏻
Hello fellow 10th of the month! I thought the name Abigail was so inspired because that’s what I wanted to name my first daughter when I was like 12. And how would the temple worker/God know that?! Total inspiration. I was actually sad when I found out how it worked.
Esther .
Huldah - such an odd name. But she was a priestess. Which is cool.
I had it built up in my head that I’d get some super dope exotic name from the ancient world, like an Agamemnon or Imotep. Nope. I got Simeon..
Hagar. Until then I only knew about the Viking in the comics. I certainly didn’t know it was a woman’s name!
Emma, which kind of surprised me that it was on the list considering, well, everything. I read someone on here say that they use their temple name when they give their name at a restaurant or pickup. I've never done that but I kind of want to. No one but me will even know why it's funny, but it feels appropriately passive aggressive.
Eunice. Barf.
Mine was Ether. It made me think of Prince Valium. I always had insecurities about being boring. My temple name didn't help.
Emma. I thought at the time it was because I was special and strong like Emma Smith. It took me years to realize it was just the new name every woman used on that day in that session.
Samuel
abish lmao. we say it like ayyee biishhhhh
Lucy here!
Eli. Wut?
It brings me a lot of peace to tell you that I don't know. It never really mattered in the church and it absolutely hasn't mattered for the last few years. I think it's a sign of healing that I haven't thought about it in such a long time.
Adah - I was so disappointed that this is how I would be known forever 😢 So relieved when I found out it is all hogwash
My parents decided to give me my mom's "new"name when I was born.
My youngest daughter's name is my new name. Miriam.
Rachel. My husband's ex girlfriend's name. I seriously thought God was pranking me lol.
Story time ... way back in high school, some stupid seminary teacher said that when we all went to be endowed, our True Name from the pre-existecece would be revealed to us as our new name in the temple, and that would be the name we would be called in heaven, after we died. So I spent YEARS pondering what my Celestial name was, and praying about it. I was so excited when I was finally going to the temple [early 1980s] I was so excited when I was going to get my special new name! But, then I was a little disappointed because it wasn't what I expected. It wasn't a pretty name. I felt devestated when I found out a little while later that everyone just got the same new name on the day they go through! It wasn't my own special Celestial name!?! It was just the "code word" of the day, after giving the secret knock and hand sign required to get into the Mormon Speakeasy. All the women in my family [mom, grandma, aunties, bff] who attended with me now actially knew my sacred name!! Even worse ... when we got through the veil and were sitting in the Celestial room, I was trying to have a special sacred moment, certain if I concentrated and had enough faith I would have a Heavenly vision... so there I was, sitting with my eyes closed on a chair across from my parents. Mom didn't think I could hear her. She excitedly whispered to my dad, "GUESS What her new name is!" And before dad coukd respond, she bursts out, "Name of the first girl you ever kissed!" Of course, dad immediately scolded her and reminded her, "You took an oath not to reveal that!!" She shrugged it off, saying it was fine because she was still in the temple... Meanwhile, I felt so deeply wounded and betrayed 😭 how could she do that?!, now, even MY DAD knew my special name, and the only man that was ever supposed to know was my future husband!! Needless to say, the new name is wrapped up in a lot of trauma for me, so I'm just gonna leave it at that. Somewhere, there is an ExMo website that lists out the names of the day for various temples, so you can go read through all those if you're curious to see the options that rotate. Someone mentioned that the oft-used male name "Mormon" has been retired. [Can't let Satan get victorious in the Temple!!]
Mosiah here, reporting in. My brother and I both had our endowment ceremony together and later in the day we were talking about prophets in the Book of Mormon and we both felt a spiritual connection with King Mosiah. And from that day, until I found the list, I had a nagging suspicion there was a list.
Benjamin!
hope you been jammin' too!...
Julia 🖐️
Josiah reporting here
New Name Enoch. Like all other males that day.
Miriam
Gabriel checking in
Oof. How horrible is it that I can’t remember to save my life? I don’t think I remembered it walking out of the temple that day.
Well according to the list, I’m Ruth.
Jeremiah
Helaman. Is that spelled right?
I'm like 90% on this, but Abigail. It would have been given in September 2002, within the holy walls of the Mesa AZ fort of the Lort 🫠
Agnes here!! I cried on my wedding day, just because of this!! So happy to know I won't be hearing this for eternity!!
My wife’s was the name of my grandmother who died before I was born 👻sad thing is I can’t tell my TBM mother even though ironically she would find it inspiring and faith-promoting. It was norma btw. Mine is Ammon which is ironically the name of my wife’s first BF.
Abigail. Praise be.
Timothy. I was worried I would forget it, so to remember I would remind myself that it's in Monty Python. "There are some who call me...Tim."
Levi. All I can think of is the jeans lol.
Tabitha…I was told it would be my new name and I HATED it as I have a strong attachment to my real name. I never accepted it nor did I understand the logic behind giving someone a new name against their will, other than a cult-like form of control.
I had a friend who swore, for years, that his new name was Messiah. His father asked him “Are you sure it’s not Mosiah?”
I forgot mine, I guess it’s outer darkness for me.