# Songs with female names in the title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583 "2019-05-06T19:09:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/1 "2019-05-06T19:09:22Z")
I was wondering which name popped up the most when it came to female names in song titles. For the purpose of this thread religious songs/hymns are excluded. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/2 "2019-05-06T19:13:10Z")
For rock/pop songs, I bet it’s some shortening of Susan like Sue or Susie. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/3 "2019-05-06T19:37:38Z")
Probably not a record, but I know of at least three pop-rock songs (all good, IMHO) about “Diane”: by [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4PHYnbrK0), [Material Issue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TJjfmK6zbM), and [Trip Shakespeare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWDG073BjQU). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/4 "2019-05-06T19:56:02Z")
Wiki lists eight different songs titled “Gloria”(not counting the religious hymns). ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/5 "2019-05-06T20:08:23Z")
[Jessica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica) has at least 12 according to Wiki. [Mary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary) has at least 18. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/6 "2019-05-06T20:12:58Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > [Jessica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica) has at least 12 according to Wiki. > [Mary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary) has at least 18. Since the name doesn’t have to the only word in the title, I’m putting “Mary”'s count at 20. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/7 "2019-05-06T20:28:07Z")
[Maria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria) has 28. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/8 "2019-05-06T22:00:49Z")
**Candy** has been used about a dozen times, but I was thinking out the Iggy Pop version. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/9 "2019-05-07T13:41:50Z")
“Doreen” is an unusual name, and yet I can think of two songs right off the top of my head with that title (Frank Zappa, and Old 97s). ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/10 "2019-05-09T08:18:20Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > [Maria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria) has 28. There’s several in Spanish not listed there, but Spanish ones tend to refer to compound names since those are more common than [María no más](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGouTUW9vxc) (“just plain María”… WTF, [a cover by Cliff Richards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbFS2cjWUx4)?). [María de los Guardias](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83evERc8fE) is a compound nickname (“Mary of the Guards”); that’s the original version, it has enough covers to fill multiple vynils. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/11 "2019-05-09T13:32:29Z")
I was thinking Jane was a good candidate. But I got lazy and googled it. Here’s a [website](https://www.theawl.com/2012/03/thirty-songs-named-for-people-named-jane-in-order/) listing 30 Jane songs, presumably compiled by someone with too much time on their hands. Intriguingly, the site boasts 30 Jane songs listed “in order”. But of what, though? j ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/12 "2019-05-09T17:51:55Z")
Jen/Jenny/Jenni/Jennifer has [at least 50](https://playlists.net/all-jenny-songs). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/13 "2019-05-09T18:15:46Z")
[This site](http://www.mldb.org/search?mq=mary&mm=0&si=2&from=0)lists 11 pages of songs with \*Mary \*in the title. About 30 titles per page. Some of them are duplicates, i.e. the same song by different artists. Some of them might have a religious theme, if not actual hymns, but there’s probably at least 250 separate songs there. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/14 "2019-05-09T18:20:44Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > For rock/pop songs, I bet it’s some shortening of Susan like Sue or Susie. For the purposes of this thread, does _A Boy Named Sue_ count? The point of the song is that it’s not used as a female name in this particular case. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-female-names-in-the-title/833583/15 "2019-05-09T18:33:00Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > For the purposes of this thread, does _A Boy Named Sue_ count? The point of the song is that it’s not used as a female name in this particular case. It counts.