# How many real people can we name with months for first names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410 "2014-01-21T22:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/1 "2014-01-21T22:48:41Z")
January Jones May West (spelling it wrong is okay) – Zetterling June Haver – Allyson – Lockhart Plenty of blanks to fill in. If you give a real name it’s okay to add a junk one or two, such as May DeVonner. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/2 "2014-01-21T22:51:46Z")
I’d say the April, May and Junes are too legion to bother naming examples of. August is a relatively rare name but not unheard of. Of the rest, January Jones is the only month-namer I can think of offhand. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/3 "2014-01-21T22:52:05Z")
Augustus Caesar, which kind of works both ways since August is named after him. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/4 "2014-01-21T22:52:48Z")
Well, there’s always Julius Caesar … 😃 … and his adopted kid, Augustus. Though that’s a title, not a name. 😉 Edit: ninja’d! In part. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/5 "2014-01-21T22:56:04Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > August is a relatively rare name but not unheard of. Playwright [August Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson) came to mind for me. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/6 "2014-01-21T23:06:08Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Playwright [August Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson) came to mind for me. After posting the OP I remembered August Derleth, one of Lovecraft’s contemporaries. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/7 "2014-01-22T00:45:38Z")
That leaves us with: February March ?July Is Julius close enough? September October November December Time to google. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/8 "2014-01-22T00:53:14Z")
So far the closest I’ve gotten is a few character names, and I know they don’t count.\* I met someone, once, named September Dawn. I don’t remember her last name. Not sure if that counts, either. \*[One of the Observers in Fringe is named September. The protagonist in _No Rest for the Wicked_ is named November. There’s a marvel mutant named December (Winter Frost - X-Nation 2099).] ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/9 "2014-01-22T01:07:57Z")
[December](http://people.wright.edu/december.green). I didn’t know her personally, but she and I lived in the same building at one time. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/10 "2014-01-22T01:11:03Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > [December](http://people.wright.edu/december.green). I didn’t know her personally, but she and I lived in the same building at one time. Nice! ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/11 "2014-01-22T01:14:54Z")
March of Dimes? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/12 "2014-01-22T01:15:39Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > That leaves us with: > > February > March > ?July Is Julius close enough? > September > October > November > December > > Time to google. We may have to resort to one of the non-July versions, but Julius, Julie and Julian could fill a few pages off the tops of our heads, I should think. Of course, there’s that old “July Fly and Apple Pan Dowdy” reason for somebody like Marty McFly (Back to the Future, was it?) to get creative with. 🙂 And a simple search reveals it’s Shoo-Fly Pie! ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/13 "2014-01-22T01:21:18Z")
I’m guess Miss January, Miss February, Miss March, etc, aren’t what you were looking for? 😃 Sorry, I got no one that hasn’t already been listed. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/14 "2014-01-22T01:22:25Z")
I grew up across the street from a family with a daughter named September. Because her last name was also a word, it’s impossible to Google her, although White Pages shows three people with her first and last name, and one is still in the area so could be her. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/15 "2014-01-22T01:32:59Z")
Too late for edit, but Dave Eggers of _A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_ fame named his daughter [October](http://nameberry.com/blog/tag/dave-eggers). ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/16 "2014-01-22T04:02:35Z")
October is the stage name of a British singer. Her real name is apparently October Hamlyn-Wright. March Fong Eu is a politician from California. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/17 "2014-01-22T04:40:08Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Playwright [August Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson) came to mind for me. And the four beer barons: [August Anheuser Busch, Sr.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Anheuser_Busch,_Sr.), [August “Gussie” Anheuser Busch, Jr.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gussie_Busch), [August Anheuser Busch III](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Busch_III), and [August Adolphus Busch IV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Busch_IV). ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/18 "2014-01-22T05:02:15Z")
Fletcher Christian of Mutiny on the Bounty fame named one of his sons Thursday October Christian. Searching census records turns up a few people named February, such as the fabulously named February Moony of Van Buren co., TN, from the 1870 census. There’s some Novembers as well, including a November Dick, aged 50, in the 1880 Louisiana census. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/19 "2014-01-22T05:21:10Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > “… November Dick, aged 50…” There is a big joke here. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410/20 "2014-01-22T13:44:33Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > [December](http://people.wright.edu/december.green). I didn’t know her personally, but she and I lived in the same building at one time. “December Green” is an awesome name. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-real-people-can-we-name-with-months-for-first-names/679410.md?page=2)