# Pronouncing "Content", a woman's name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 5, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670 "2025-04-05T19:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/41 "2025-04-06T17:18:21Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > April, May and June. But none of the other months. Similarly, Autumn, Summer and Winter but no Spring. And only Wednesday (fictitious) and Tuesday (nickname) but not the other days of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/42 "2025-04-06T17:27:55Z")
And all of the flowers. Rose, Lily, Petunia, Daisy, etc. Flowers, gems, and virtues, between them, seem to cover most of the meaningful English women’s names (though there are a few others). > [@HeyHomie](#): > > We have Victor, Frank, Chad, Craig, and a small handful of others. Victor means Victor, but it comes from German, which happens to have the same word for that as English. The others, I think are only coincidental. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/43 "2025-04-06T17:35:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And all of the flowers. Rose, Lily, Petunia, Daisy If I’m not mistaken, female Hobbits are named exclusively for flowers. Bilbo’s mother was Belladonna Took, Sam married Rosie Cotton, etc. There’s a meme going around that says something to the effect of: HOBBIT DAD: Here are my daughters - Daisy, Rose, and Snowdrop. HOBBIT DAD: And here are my sons - Chungus, Bongwater and Dumbo. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/44 "2025-04-06T17:59:15Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > But none of the other months. [January Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Jones) ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/45 "2025-04-06T18:06:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Victor means Victor, but it comes from German, which happens to have the same word for that as English. I’d say it comes from Latin. The Standard German noun meaning “victor” is “Sieger” (from “siegen”, meaning “to win”; and yes, “Sieg Heil” shares that root too). It might be that a hundred or so years ago, people might have poetically used “victor” in German as a loan word from Latin, but it would have been considered a non-German word. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/46 "2025-04-06T18:44:52Z")
Years ago in Seattle I met a September. Without my even asking her husband volunteered that her parents had been hippies. ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/47 "2025-04-06T19:01:46Z")
Had a coworker (and friend) who was born in May, so of course her mother named her April. I used to kid her about that. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/48 "2025-04-06T19:27:25Z")
Rudyard Kipling was named after a lake in England where his parents had met. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/49 "2025-04-06T19:53:00Z")
Once I imagined writing fiction about somebody in the Washington, DC area who has three daughters, naming them Virginia, Marilyn, and Columbia. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/50 "2025-04-06T20:49:51Z")
It took me a few headlines to figure out that the person who leaked the Russian election interference report was not a victorious reality TV contestant. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/51 "2025-04-06T22:18:49Z")
Spring Byington ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/52 "2025-04-07T00:53:49Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > But none of the other months. I went to college with a guy whose girlfriend was named September. I knew a girl in high school named Dolores, whose middle name was Mercedes. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/53 "2025-04-07T01:02:05Z")
I wish my kids named their kids names like I’m hearing here. I have to admit the grandkids fit their names now. No matter how weird they are. (Names and Kids) ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/54 "2025-04-07T02:11:47Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Prudence, Faith, Charity, etc. The seven virtues are traditionally chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, patience, and humility. Then the heavenly virtues are prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, and the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Some of them caught on as women’s names. Never heard of Content as a name. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670/55 "2025-04-07T02:15:34Z")
Don’t forget the [Seven Deadly Virtues](http://andrewsherman.blogspot.com/2007/08/seven-deadly-virtues.html?m=1). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670.md?page=2)